The dust from last Friday’s extraordinary EU summit – the first at which an EU leader was actively outvoted over the appointment of the European Commission President – is starting to settle. As strong emotions recede, pragmatism is coming to the force …
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britain in europe, Cameron, EU reform, german media, Jean-Claude Juncker, schauble |
May 30, 2014
The latest intervention by one of Europe’s most important politicians shows that, in the wake of the shock European elections result over the weekend, Europe’s leaders are waking up to smell the coffee.Writing a guest piece for Die Welt, Germany’s Fi…
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#EUReform, anglo-german axis, comtpe, germany, schauble, subsidiarity |
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 |
March 28, 2014
In a major coup for David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne has penned a joint op-ed in the FT with his German opposite number Wolfgang Schäuble. Both argue for the need for EU reform (including services liberalisation) and for safegu…
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anglo-german axis, david cameron, EU reform, EU treaty change, eurozone, George Osborne, schauble, single market safeguards |
It seems the German government has finally publicly accepted what everyone already knew – that Greece will need some kind of further financial assistance after its second bailout programme expires at the end of 2014. German Finance Minister Wolfgang …
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eurozone crisis, German 2013 federal election, germany, Greece, Greek bailout, Greek euro exit, grexit, Merkel, schauble |
June 11, 2013
The German Constitutional Court in KarlsruheThe German Constitutional Court’s (GCC) hearings into the legality of the ECB’s actions to combat the eurozone crisis – and specifically the OMT bond buying programme – kicked off this morning. (See h…
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bundesbank, ECB, German Constitutional Court, German public opinion, OMT, schauble, weidmann |
May 24, 2013
The Bundesbank, The Deutscher Aktieninstitute (DAI), and even EU civil servants from the 11 participating countries have all warned against the FTT in its current form. Today saw yet another German voice raised again the tax – this time from the very…
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May 13, 2013
It’s been a week of ‘splits’ over Europe and it looks like another one may be emerging – although this time in Germany. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble had an article in the FT arguing:”While today’s EU treaties provide adequate founda…
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asmussen, ECB, ECB Governing Council, german elections, german media, German public opinion, germany, schauble |
Some EU pundits have spent the last several months arguing that a change to the EU treaties is a non-starter. “Don’t you know”, they say with a high degree of confidence “the Germans have gone off it.” And in any case, no one else wants it any way for …
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banking supervision, banking union, britain in europe, Cameron's EU speech, david cameron, German Constitutional Court, germany, schauble, treaty change |
March 26, 2013
Given all the Germany-bashing over the last week, in the wake of the Cyprus bailout deal (some of it completely ridiculous), it’s easy to forget that the Germans themselves are remarkably united over the agreement. In fact, the feeling is that Germany,…
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bailout fatigue, Cyprus, eurozone bailouts, eurozone north vs south, german media, German public opinion, Merkel, schauble |
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