June 28, 2012
People have once again been getting rather excited over a media report today. This time it is an interview which German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble gave to the WSJ in which he said:”We are willing to go as far as we need to in order to get…
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debt-pooling, eurobonds. ecb, France, franco-german axis, germany, Merkel, schauble |
May 23, 2012
A slightly amusing story in yesterday’s Bild caught our attention this morning concerning a growing row over the seating arrangements in the Nordrhein-Westfalen regional parliament (Landtag) which has to be re-thought following the recent elections. …
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Bild Zeitung, democracy, eurobonds. ecb, eurozone. bail-out, germany, Merkel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Piratenpartei |
Regular readers know what we think of the UK government’s peculiar habit of lecturing the eurozone on the need to move to a full fiscal union (meaning eurozone governments completely running over their own electorates). Well, over the weekend, the Coal…
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Cameron, ed balls, eurobonds. ecb, eurozone, fiscal union, germany, Merkel, nick clegg, Osborne |
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