Die Welt’s Economic Editor Tobias Kaiser has an opinion piece in today’s paper entitled entitled “Stay with us, Brits”, in which he argues that:“Berlin needs London as a partner in the fight for fiscal reason [in the EU].” Kaiser highlight…
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angela merkel, anglo-german axis, Anglo-German relations, britain in europe, fiscal discipline, France, Francois Hollande, George Osborne, schauble, services liberalisation, single market safeguards |
April 30, 2013
The new Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta announced his first raft of policies in his first speech to the Italian parliament yesterday. The speech was strong on anti-austerity rhetoric but short on details of how his new approach would be funded – il…
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angela merkel, anti-austerity, austerity, berlusconi, crisis, deficit, enrico letta, eurozone, fiscal discipline, italy, letta agenda, tax |
April 18, 2013
It’s been a busy week for the IMF, releasing their latest iterations of the World Economic Outlook, Global Financial Stability Report and the Fiscal Monitor. We’ve been poring over the reports and will continue to do so (see here for some initial t…
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deficit, economic data, eurozone, fiscal discipline, growth, imf, sovereign debt, Spain, weo |
April 3, 2013
The package is coming together. The IMF has officially announced that it will take part in the Cypriot bailout, providing €1bn of the total €10bn in loans – that gives a UK share of around €50m (see our thoughts here on UK IMF shares). That leave…
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austerity, Christine Lagarde, Cyprus, EU-IMF memorandum, eurozone. bail-out, fiscal discipline, imf, national parliaments |
February 8, 2013
MEPs – or at least some of them – aren’t exactly doing themselves any favours at the moment.European Parliament President Martin Schulz has been waxing lyrical about how devastating a cut in the EU budget would be. “We want a modern EU budget…As …
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EU budget, eurozone, fiscal cliff, fiscal discipline, Martin Schulz |
October 18, 2012
An EU leader saying that he or she is in favour of “more Europe” in response to the Eurozone crisis means absolutely nothing. Ask Germans whether they’re in favour of more Europe, meaning codification of Bundesbank-style fiscal discipline at the …
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angela merkel, fiscal discipline, fiscal union, germany, Herman Van Rompuy, Hollande, ordnungspolitik |
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