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Tag Archives: ECB
May 3 2013
Brussels blog round-up for 27 April – 3 May: A dreary May Day, the ECB cuts rates, and could Spain become the Florida of Europe?
Leave a commentChris Gilson takes a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU centre and the crisis Ahead of elections to the European Parliament in May 2014, Jon Worth previews potential candidates for the post of EU Commission President from … Continue reading
Posted by: May 3, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, blog, ECB, France, social media, UK
Apr 26 2013
Brussels blog round-up for 20 – 26 April: Italy’s new Prime Minister, trust in the EU falls, and should all EU states recognise gay marriage?
Leave a commentChris Gilson and Stuart A. Brown take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU centre and the crisis This week saw European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso admit that austerity may have reached its limit, according to Lost … Continue reading
Posted by: April 26, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, blogs, ECB, euroscepticism, Germany, Merkel, UK
Apr 13 2013
The Bundesbank’s disingenuous claim that Southern Europeans are richer than Germans has stoked anti-bailout sentiment.
5 CommentsRecent weeks have seen the German Central Bank and the European Central Bank release studies that have suggested that Germans have less wealth than Southern Europeans. Stefan Bauchowitz and José Javier Olivas argue that differences between the data used and … Continue reading
Posted by: April 13, 2013
Tagged with: bailouts, Bundesbank, crisis, ECB, Germany, Spain, wealth
Apr 12 2013
Brussels blog round-up for 6 – 12 April: Germany expects praise, Thatcher’s legacy for Europe, and will Juan Carlos abdicate?
Leave a commentChris Gilson takes a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU centre and the crisis Portugal’s constitutional court recently rejected the terms of that country’s bailout by the EU/ECB/IMF Troika. Lost in EUrope praises the judges for upholding the … Continue reading
Apr 8 2013
Contrary to what is promoted by the EU’s central bankers, higher taxes tend to coincide with lower deficits and low debt.
1 CommentEurozone central bankers have advocated cutting taxes as part of deficit reduction, placing the burden entirely on public spending cuts, while politicians across the eurozone have tended to prefer spending cuts over tax increases in implementing austerity. But are lower … Continue reading
Posted by: April 8, 2013
Tagged with: debt, deficit, ECB, Euro, fiscal consolidation, fiscal sustainability, Inequality, taxes
Mar 7 2013
The troika should recognise the efforts made by Portugal to rebalance its finances and adjust the country’s bailout conditions.
1 CommentIn May 2011 Portugal negotiated an IMF-EU bailout package of 78 billion euros, designed to help the country stabilise its finances. In return Portugal agreed to implement a number of reforms, with a target to reduce its budget deficit to … Continue reading
