June 27, 2012
We’ve been making a concerted effort here on the OE blog to bring you many of the more memorable quotes from the eurozone crisis, and we’ve had at least one more following a debate in the German Bundestag ahead of tomorrow’s European Council summit.As …
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December 8, 2011
As has been repeated, and repeated again, in the UK media over the last few days, David Cameron isn’t in the easiest spot as he attempts to square off a number of circles with EU leaders today and tomorrow. The referendum debate has taken on a life of …
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December 7, 2011
It’s been another busy day in the eurozone crisis, with European Council President Herman van Rompuy putting out his report on the prospects for treaty change and greater eurozone fiscal integration and then German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French…
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ECB, emu, euro, eurozone. bail-out, finance, FTT, germany, Merkel, Sarkozy, sovereign debt, sovereignty, summit, Van Rompuy |
December 5, 2011
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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October 27, 2011
So, another summit passed and another chance to assess the agreements in the cold light of day. Unsurprisingly, we’re not too enthusiastic over the deal which has been struck, not least because it doesn’t seem to have changed much from the drafts w…
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October 26, 2011
The hope for a “comprehensive plan” to save the eurozone, as originally touted by the eurozone leaders, looks to be a lost cause. The best outcome we can hope for today looks to be a broad political agreement, with technical details left to be sort…
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And it is said that the British press is exceptionally cynical…On his Coulisses de Bruxelles blog, French journalist Jean Quatremer argues, “The eurozone makes one think of that cartoon where Wile E. Coyote chases Road Runner: it continues to run a…
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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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October 23, 2011
So the eurozone crisis talks go on, but for those of you interested, the conclusions from this week’s EU summit can be found here. There were no surprise statements as most decisions were deferred to the extra meeting on Wednesday, though most EU leade…
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August 16, 2011
And so passes another fatefully underwhelming summit on the eurozone crisis – at least as far as markets are concerned
You’d have thought by now that Sarkozy and Merkel would have learnt that holding a meeting without having anything meaningful to s…
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