December 19, 2011
Open Europe has today published a briefing arguing that the ECB is unlikely to buy the hundreds of billions worth of government bonds required for it to properly backstop the eurozone, following an underwhelming agreement between EU leaders at the summ…
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Draghi, ECB, emu, euro, eurozone. bail-out, finance, France, franco-german axis, germany, sovereign debt |
December 15, 2011
For all those who think that French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be sitting in the Élysée plotting some form of retaliation against Cameron, it has quickly become clear that he has much bigger things to worry about.Rumours have once again been flyi…
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credit rating, EFSF, emu, esm, eu, EU summit, eurozone. bail-out, France, germany |
December 8, 2011
It’s been a whirlwind entrance for Mario Draghi as ECB President and today’s meeting of the Governing Council was seemingly no exception. The key decisions which came out of the meeting were much what we expected, although with a few twists, while …
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Draghi, ECB, emu, eurozone. bail-out, France, germany, imf, interest rates, one-size-fits-all monetary policy, sovereign debt, sovereignty |
December 5, 2011
Today’s meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy is over and they have announced their proposal for treaty change and tackling the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone. To give them credit its more substanti…
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crisis, ECB, ECJ, esm, eu, euro, eurozone. bail-out, France, franco-german axis, germany, Merkel, Sarkozy, sovereign debt, sovereignty |
The perpetual rolling meetings which have characterised this eurozone crisis look to be reaching a head this week. The EU summit which kicks off on Thursday evening will undoubtedly be preceded by a series of smaller meetings between European officials…
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ECB, emu, euro, eurozone. bail-out, France, germany, Greece, imf, summit |
November 28, 2011
What, exactly, does Germany want from EU Treaty change to enforce budget discipline in the eurozone? Even if one speaks to diplomats and ministers with a front row seat on this issue, a straight answer is hard to come by – which is partly due to the …
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britain in europe, Cameron, France, franco-german axis, germany, Merkel, Sarkozy, treaty change |
November 21, 2011
Yesterday’s general elections in Spain saw the centre-right Partido Popular win a landslide victory and secure an absolute majority in both houses of the Spanish parliament (with 186 out of 350 MPs and 130 out of 208 Senators). The win was widely expec…
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October 24, 2011
So, by Wednesday, EU leaders will have held nine meetings in five days, which is extraordinary. In addition, they will also have seen through a huge number of rows. So how many rows can we count to, over the last week or so? Here we rank them in order …
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Conservative Europe policy, ECB, emu, eu, euro, eurozone. bail-out, France, franco-german axis, germany, summit |
October 19, 2011
Compare and contrast these headlines:Guardian: France and Germany ready to agree €2 trillion rescue fundFT Deutschland: Schäuble ready to leverage bailout fund to €1 trillionConflicting reports emerged yesterday evening as to exactly what would be…
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September 15, 2011
Last night, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Greek PM George Papandreou held another one of those crunch-time talks, as the fate of the euro balanced on a knife’s edge. Amid reports that Greece is falling well short…
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bail-out, default, France, germany, Greece, imf, Merkel, Sarkozy, sovereign debt |
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