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- No end to the controversy - 23/01/2013Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union:...
- Prospects for a referendum on Europe - 15/01/2013Report on discussion at the Federal Union committee The prime minister will give his long-awaited speech on his new Europe policy this coming Friday. In it, he will announce a...
- Federal Union review of 2012 - 05/01/2013The most important outcome of the past 12 months is that the eurozone survived. The world was poised on the edge of a financial precipice at the beginning of last...
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- Proved right on press regulation - 18/03/2013This blog has not expected to be proved right so quickly on press regulation, but that’s what happened today. At the end of last year, when the Leveson commission published...
- Trade war over gambling - 30/01/2013International trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally...
- The wrong conclusion on welfare reform - 24/01/2013In his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per...
eurozone governance Archive
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Who’s the idiot?
Posted on 30/09/2011 | 1 CommentEurosceptic journalist Peter Oborne surpassed himself on Newsnight on Wednesday denouncing a spokesperson for the European Commission as “that idiot in Brussels”. The question at issue was whether the euro might survive and, if so, whether Greece might remain a member. To Peter Oborne, the... -
Fixing the debt crisis, the Chicago way
Posted on 27/09/2011 | No CommentsIt has been alarming to watch the leadership of the eurozone limp through the debt crisis affecting some of the member states, apparently as though they have no idea of the scale of what they are facing. The piling-up of debt by countries far in... -
Alive and kicking
Posted on 19/09/2011 | 6 CommentsA very interesting comment here by Centre for European Reform chief economist Simon Tilford, wondering whether the national governments of the member states of the eurozone have got what it takes for the eurozone to survive. He is very worried that they have not. They... -
Debt is a two-edged sword
Posted on 05/09/2011 | 1 CommentA paper presented last week at a conference of the world’s central bankers looked at the levels of debt in different countries and its impact on economic growth. Debt, or to give it its other name, credit, is the lubricant of the economy. Borrowing enables... -
Ireland: is there a way forward?
Posted on 03/06/2011 | 1 CommentBy Patrick Mc Nally It is now some months since we have had a change of government. Already the old regime has faded into the mists of history. The voters have decided and punished the outgoing government for their mismanagement of the economy and are... -
Can the eurozone be saved? (15 November 2010)
Posted on 09/11/2010 | No CommentsMonday 15 November 2010, 5.00 – 6.45 pm followed by a drinks reception Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3RB (click here for a map) The eurozone is facing the largest crisis in its history. Public debt is ballooning, economic growth is weak...
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