Tag Archives: Crisis

Sep 13 2013

Disabused of Great Expectations? (Don’t) Hold your breath for Germany’s election

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Posted in: Europe, Germany, Max Hänska

By Max Hänska Those who were lucky enough to enjoy a vacation from the euro crisis this summer might partially owe this pleasure to the prevalent notion that all will be different after Germany’s election. “Then,” some might have exclaimed, “we … Continue reading →

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Aug 29 2013

Solana at LSE: The EU in the Eye of the Storm

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Posted in: Europe, Events

Our partner LSE IDEAS will celebrate the launch of their Southern European International Affairs Programme with a public lecture at LSE by Javier Solana on Monday 14th October (6.30-8.00pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building). Dr Solana’s lecture will be … Continue reading →

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Aug 20 2013

Emerging Themes from the First Six Months of Euro Crisis in the Press

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Posted in: Euro, Europe, Henry Radice, Jose Javier Olivas, Maria Kyriakidou, Max Hänska, Outi Keranen, Roberto Orsi, Vassilis Paipais

By the Editorial Team The Euro Crisis in the Press blog began as part of a wider LSE-based research project on media representations of the Euro crisis across European states. The aim of the blog has been to provide a … Continue reading →

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Jul 8 2013

Interview with Nikos Chrysoloras: “Europe needs to find its ambition again!”

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Posted in: Greece, Interviews

Euro Crisis in the Press is proud to introduce a new series of interviews with influential analysts and commentators as well as global public intellectuals on different dimensions of the public discourse surrounding the current European Crisis. In today’s interview, … Continue reading →

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May 4 2013

Symbols, Trauma and European Identity

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Posted in: France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Uncategorized

EUROPP’s editors Stuart A Brown and Chris Gilson in conversation with Jeffrey C. Alexander about his views on modernity, the European integration process, and the importance of cultural and political symbols to European democracy. You’ve written about the ‘dark side’ of modernity. … Continue reading →

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May 1 2013

Managing a European Recovery: The Case for Public Spending for an Energy Transition

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Posted in: Business, Max Hänska

By Afzal Siddiqui and Max Hänska* The public debate about a European economic recovery has atrophied in a stimulus vs. austerity, north vs. south blame game. Far too little attention is devoted to the question into which kind of investments … Continue reading →

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Apr 28 2013

The Implications of Nazi-comparisons in Current European Discourse

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Posted in: Germany, Greece, Maria Brock, Portugal, Spain

By Maria Brock and Rui Lopes* “They’re Germans”, whispers John Cleese, “so don’t mention the war!” Four decades after the classic Fawlty Towers episode first aired, the memory of World War II continues to cloud Germany’s foreign relations, with German … Continue reading →

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Apr 21 2013

A cultural reading of the Cyprus crisis

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Posted in: Cyprus

By Dr. Olga Demetriou* Dr Olga Demetriou probes whether the apocalyptic scenarios pervading the discourse of ‘surprise’ around the ‘crisis’ in Cyprus are repositioning the sense of self of Cypriots vis-à-vis their institutions, the state, or the future The Cyprus … Continue reading →

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Apr 12 2013

Fairness, Bail-in/outs and the Poor Germans

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Posted in: Cyprus, Germany, Greece

By Stefan K. Loesch* In response to the post “Selective truths and Spanish riches: The Bundesbank’s study on household wealth” This article has been cross-posted from oditorium U. The recent study of Bundesbank on household wealth has introduced the idea that … Continue reading →

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Apr 10 2013

The impact of the international press in Portugal

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Posted in: Portugal

By Rui Lopes* As the international press fixes its gaze on Portugal once again, it seems to do so with little awareness of its disproportional impact in that country’s opinion- and policy makers. Portuguese journalists, pundits and politicians closely monitor … Continue reading →

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