September 6, 2012
Over on Telegraph blogs, we argue: Stemming the crisis through cheap central bank money sounds so easy. The logic goes: Italy and Spain have economic problems which cause markets to push up their borrowing costs, which now have reached “irrational” …
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bailout, Draghi, ECB, eurozone crisis, italy, moral hazard, Spain |
June 12, 2012
In an interview in today’s FT, Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is raising the stakes in the talks on a ‘banking union’ in the EU and/or eurozone, involving an EU-wide deposit guarantee scheme, a rescue fund paid for by financial inst…
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banking regulation, banking union, barroso, France, germany, Hollande, Merkel, moral hazard, Sweden, treaty change |
October 13, 2011
In today’s Wall Street journal, we look at Tuesday’s vote in Slovakia – here’s the full piece:Richard Sulik has emerged as Brussels’s public enemy number one. As leader of Slovakia’s Freedom and Solidarity party, or SaS, Mr. Sulik has consistently a…
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bail-out, democracy, EFSF, moral hazard, Slovakia, sovereign debt |
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