September 24, 2012
One of the consequences of the eurozone crisis is that media, pundits and market analysts have been forced to become experts of what previously would have been seen as the most obscure political events. Thus, the Finnish local elections now have intern…
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esm, eurozone bailouts, finland, leverage, timo soini, true finns |
July 25, 2012
It’s election campaign season in the Netherlands, with Dutch voters due to choose their next government on 12 September. Caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s VVD party has come up with a rather original way of planting the eurozone crisis into domesti…
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dutch elections, dutch politics, euro, finland, italy, mark rutte, Spain, timo soini, true finns, wilders |
August 31, 2011
In an interview with today’s FAZ, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé made the following, rather striking statement:
“The dissolution of the eurozone is not acceptable, because it would also be the dissolution of Europe. If that happens, then eve…
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bail-out, euro, eurobonds, populism, public opinion, sovereign debt, true finns |
August 24, 2011
The eurozone’s embarrassing collateral-for-loans spat continues, with member states disagreeing over whether Finland should be allowed to get collateral from Greece in return for giving Athens fresh loans. Who should guarantee the guarantees remains th…
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austria, EFSF, euro, finland, germany, Greece, Netherlands, Slovakia, true finns |
May 18, 2011
Last week, the True Finns announced that it could not participate in a Coalition government that supported the bail-out of Portugal, its opposition to which was a key plank of the party’s election manifesto. Announcing the decision, True Finns leader T…
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bail-out, democracy, eurozone, public opinion, timo soini, true finns |
April 19, 2011
In today’s Wall Street Journal we argue,”When European Union leaders forged their monetary union without a full political and economic merger, they gambled on two vital factors: That economic forces could be kept in check, and that national democracies…
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bail-out, democracy, democratic deficit, emu, EU reform, euro, eurozone, finland, Slovakia, true finns |
April 18, 2011
The exact consequences for the eurozone of the True Finns’ success in yesterday’s Finnish elections remain unclear. The result makes it the third largest party, securing 39 seats in the 200-strong parliament with 19% of the votes, close behind the Nati…
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April 15, 2011
This is a graph showing the support for the different parties, according to a poll published last night, ahead of the Finnish national elections on Sunday. All international eyes are on the True Finns (fourth from the left) – the party that has said i…
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bail-out, democracy, emu, eurozone, finland, populism, true finns |
April 5, 2011
We have received a couple of comments in regards to our blog post below on the rise of populist parties in the wake of the eurozone bail-outs. Some have been unhappy about our assertion that the Front National is gaining ground in French politics, wher…
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