December 3, 2014
With politics heating up in the frigid Swedish winter we can’t help but get the sense that Europe is turning itself on its head a bit…North becoming South?We warned yesterday that the Swedish government was on the brink of collapse. So it has prove…
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core, denmark, finland, Greece, periphery, Spain, Sweden, Sweden Democrats |
April 11, 2014
Since our last post on this issue things seem to have only got worse for Finland. The European Commission’s latest economic forecast (see table below, click to enlarge) made pretty dire reading with Finland expected to be one of the worst performers …
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credit rating, economic growth, eurozone crisis, finland, gas, gdp, growth, nokia, russia, S&P, structural reform |
February 14, 2014
That seems a strange question to ask. The country is a paid-up member of the eurozone core and is one of the few countries in the world to have a triple A credit rating from all three top agencies (S&P, Moody’s & Fitch) and a stable outlook fro…
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credit rating, economic growth, eurozone crisis, finland, gdp, growth, nokia, structural reform |
A new Gallup poll for Debating Europe has asked peple all over the EU, except Luxembourg for some reason, about their views on austerity.Now, of course, ‘austerity’ is rather a nebulous concept, particularly as different member states have had differen…
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anti-austerity, austerity, euro, finland, germany, ireland, Netherlands, poll |
September 24, 2012
One of the consequences of the eurozone crisis is that media, pundits and market analysts have been forced to become experts of what previously would have been seen as the most obscure political events. Thus, the Finnish local elections now have intern…
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esm, eurozone bailouts, finland, leverage, timo soini, true finns |
July 25, 2012
It’s election campaign season in the Netherlands, with Dutch voters due to choose their next government on 12 September. Caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s VVD party has come up with a rather original way of planting the eurozone crisis into domesti…
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dutch elections, dutch politics, euro, finland, italy, mark rutte, Spain, timo soini, true finns, wilders |
Spain and Finland last night reached a deal on the provision of collateral for the Finnish share of the Spanish rescue package. This is the second collateral deal which Finland has struck, following the one on the second Greek bailout, although thankfu…
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As we expected, doubts are already arising over the package agreed at last week’s summit. In particular, Finland and the Netherlands have today expressed strong reservations about the plans to allow the EFSF and ESM to purchase the debt of struggling…
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September 23, 2011
A tasty development coming out of tiny Malta today – the Maltese government plans to ask for collateral on its loans to Greece.Maltese Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said:“I can confirm that at a recent meeting of the Eurogroup in Poland, Malta offi…
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eu, euro, eurozone. bail-out, finland, Greece, malta, sovereign debt |
September 5, 2011
While the eurozone crisis rumbles on, the mis-match between what the eurozone needs to survive (probably a full-blown fiscal union) and what citizens accept, is growing ever more conspicuous.
Therefore, we were a bit surprised when the we read the fol…
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bail-out, democracy, democratic deficit, eurobarometer, eurobonds, finland, germany, public opinion |
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