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Latest Articles in 'Europe'
- By John Parry Review of “The Council of Europe” by Martyn Bond (Routledge Global Institutions Series, price £75 hardback) It was summer 1949. In the village of Le Hohwald, tucked...
- If you’re not at the table, you’re part of the menu - 22/02/2012By Patrick Mc Nally Is it so radical? January 2012, another European Summit and yet another treaty. A treaty that Germany wants but the other 26 countries do not. The...
- Political language - 17/02/2012There is a referendum in Latvia on Saturday on a proposal to make Russian an official language. Around one third of the population have Russian as their first language (compare...
Latest Blog Entries
- How the world turns - 20/05/2012It is not only the world of politics that is turned upside down by the European banking crisis and the ineffectual way in which political leaders are dealing with it. ...
- Authentic euroscepticism - 20/05/2012A very interesting article in the Daily Telegraph last Friday by Jeremy Warner (read it here) sums up the eurosceptic dilemma and reveals the perverse nature of the way they...
- Overwhelming - 18/05/2012This blog has described before the difficulties associated with Greek departure from the eurozone. It would reduce the Greeks to a cash or even barter economy for a while, and...
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Solving the financial crisis – who pays?
Posted on 22/12/2011 | No CommentsFederal Union and the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust held a discussion on 10 November 2011 about the current financial crisis in the light of the ethics and vision of the European idea. The speakers were: GRAHAM BISHOP, a widely respected economic and financial commentator on... -
A view from the other side
Posted on 19/12/2011 | No CommentsBy Patrick Mc Nally The mood is subdued. This is an underwhelming summit deal. The summit failed to deliver a decisive result in favour of the single currency and has made a grave problem more difficult by embarking on a new institutional debate over the... -
Three threats to the euro still remain
Posted on 15/12/2011 | 1 CommentThe European Council meeting a week ago was convened with the aim of saving the euro. Agreement was reached at the meeting about a way forward for the EU, even if the UK (and perhaps some others) will not travel with the rest. But despite... -
Is Germany doing enough to save the euro?
Posted on 13/12/2011 | 3 CommentsDebate at King’s College London, on 12 December 2011, on the subject of “Germany has not taken enough proactive steps to solve the eurozone crisis, despite being at the top table of European politics and its economic standing.” Richard Laming was asked to speak against... -
What has David Cameron achieved at the summit?
Posted on 09/12/2011 | 3 CommentsThe fallout from last night’s European Council summit in Brussels is still falling out, but I think it is possible now to identify the main lines of what was and was not achieved. The news reports portray the outcome as Britain versus the rest of... -
What patterns of share ownership tell us
Posted on 06/12/2011 | 1 CommentAn interesting statistic reported by Professor Prem Sikka in the Guardian today, regarding the ownership of British companies. The proportion of the shares in UK-listed companies owned by foreign investors has increased from 6.6 per cent in 1969 to 41.5 per cent in 2008. The... -
Meltdown
Posted on 05/12/2011 | No CommentsThis will be the situation if the markets are disappointed by the decisions of the European Council on 9 December. If this happens the market will probably sell every euro denominated asset. We can only hope that the worst case scenario can be avoided. Just... -
Can Europe avoid economic decline?
Posted on 30/11/2011 | No CommentsThe public sector strikers outside English schools, hospitals and government offices today are protesting not against government pension policies but against something much bigger. There are profound economic problems that need to be dealt with, and would need to be dealt with even if there... -
Radoslaw Sikorski: I fear Germany’s power less than her inactivity
Posted on 29/11/2011 | No CommentsThe break up of the eurozone would be a crisis of apocalyptic proportions, going beyond our financial system. Once the logic of “each man for himself” takes hold, can we really trust everyone to act in a communitarian way and resist the temptation to settle... -
No globalisation without representation
Posted on 22/11/2011 | No CommentsThat the protestors outside St Paul’s cathedral are critical of global capitalism should not be surprise. Doesn’t everybody object to the way in which what was effectively gambling in unregulated markets nearly brought down the financial system and has ground economic growth to a halt?...
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