Pablo Iglesias with economists Navarro (right) and Torres López (left) With the next general election only one year away, Spain’s anti-establishment party Podemos last week unveiled a revamped package of economic proposals written for them by S…
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austerity, eurozone, eurozone crisis, Iglesias, Podemos, Rajoy, Spain, Spanish economy, Spanish politics |
October 23, 2014
Open Europe Berlin Director Michael Wohlgemuth has written an interesting piece for World Review, looking at the current status of the German economy. Here it is:The German economy is showing clear signs of weakening. GDP declined by 0.2 per cent in th…
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austerity, CDU, European Commission, eurozone, germany, growth, investment, juncker, Merkel, open europe berlin, SPD |
September 4, 2014
The European Central Bank (ECB) holds its monthly meeting in Frankfurt today – the day after ECB President Mario Draghi’s 67th birthday.As usual, Open Europe’s Head of Economic Research Raoul Ruparel has published a preview on his Forbes blog, explaini…
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deflation, Draghi, ECB, eurozone, France, germany, italy, low inflation, QE, quantitative easing, Spain |
UPDATE (11:30am) – In a separate interview with Quotidiano Nazionale on Saturday, Mr Del Rio explicitly speaks of a “great victory” for Italy at the EU summit.Here’s the full quote:”The green light to flexibility is the great victory […] One needs to…
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EU fiscal rules, EU summit, EUCO, European Council, eurozone, flexibility, germany, italy, juncker, Merkel, Renzi, Stability and Growth Pact |
June 19, 2014
If Angela Merkel had privately hoped to quietly ditch Jean-Claude Juncker after the European election, it all started to go wrong when Axel Springer, the media group that owns Bild, Germany’s and Europe’s biggest selling paper, added its substanti…
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Bild Zeitung, commission president, democracy, EU budget rules, eurobonds, eurozone, Jean-Claude Juncker, Merkel, spitzenkandidaten |
Germany’s Spiegel (magazine and online news agency), has been vocal in its criticism of David Cameron forhis objection to Jean-Claude Juncker as the next Commission President, on the premise that he is blocking the democractic choice in Europe.Spiegel’…
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Bild Zeitung, Der Spiegel, European Commission, eurozone, juncker, Merkel |
April 23, 2014
There was an interesting poll in today’s FAZ conducted by INSA for Bild on whether Germans believe that eurozone crisis is over or not.The results were pretty comprehensive with 81% saying that they do not believe the crisis is over compared to 7% wh…
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crisis, deficit, eurostat, eurozone, germany, sovereign debt |
April 4, 2014
The appointment of Arnaud Montebourg – an outspoken critic of German and EU-mandated austerity and pro-competitivenesses policies – as the new French Economy Minister has not gone down well in Germany.In a feature piece headlined, “He insults…
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devaluation, eurozone, France, franco-german axis, Francois Hollande, germany, Montebourg, quotes of the crisis, state aid |
The majority of the UK public was not represented at last night’s debateThe second EU debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage was an altogether more scrappy and bad-tempered affair with more personal attacks and fewer statbombs being throw…
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britain in europe, Clegg v Farage, EU debate, EU reform, eurozone, in/out referendum, public opinion |
If you want to get a sense of how badly the latest French local elections went for President François Hollande, have a look at today’s front page of left-leaning French daily Libération: The headline means ‘The punishment’, and it summarises the…
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Ayrault, eurozone, eurozone crisis, France, French local elections, Front National, Hollande, Le Pen, Municipales 2014, Valls |
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