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Tag Archives: Blame
Feb 7 2017
Against Anti-Pluralism
Comments Off on Against Anti-PluralismBy Max Hänska Citizens are voting for candidates hitherto considered unlikely; the future of the EU, and indeed the post-war international order is in question. It is unsurprising that the current fin de siècle atmosphere, and many citizens’ sense of … Continue reading
Posted by: February 7, 2017
Tagged with: Blame, Democracy, European identity, Euroscepticism, immigration, Inequality, Nationalism, populism, Trump
Aug 7 2015
God in Berlin, Newton in Brussels: On the Power of Linguistic Images in the Eurozone Crisis
4 CommentsBy Hans Rusinek The limits of our language are the limits of our world, famously observed the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. For him, word and fact are in a representational relationship: a word is only an image of a fact, but we … Continue reading
Posted by: August 7, 2015
Tagged with: believer, Blame, creditor, debt, Euro crisis, Eurozone crisis, Germany, Greece, Greek economy, guilt
May 28 2014
European-cum-National Elections in Greece
4 CommentsBy Vassilios Paipais Last Sunday’s European elections found the Greek electorate deeply divided, fragmented and to some extent disoriented. In general, Greek voters paid scant attention to the wider European agenda but they are hardly to blame as they were … Continue reading
Posted by: May 28, 2014
Tagged with: austerity, Blame, Euro crisis, European Elections 2014, Golden Dawn, Greece, SYRIZA
Feb 7 2014
First Step to Solving the Eurozone Crisis: Change our Perceptions
4 CommentsBy Terence Tse How not to save a company Imagine the following. Your company is on the verge of bankruptcy. The only way to get out of this is to get all your employees to put in more efforts and … Continue reading
Posted by: February 7, 2014
Tagged with: Blame, Euro crisis, News, positive news, Press
Aug 20 2013
Emerging Themes from the First Six Months of Euro Crisis in the Press
Comments Off on Emerging Themes from the First Six Months of Euro Crisis in the PressBy 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
Posted by: August 20, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, Blame, blog highlights, Crisis, Cyprus, European identity, European Public Sphere, European Union, Eurozone crisis, Freedom of the press, Journalism, media, Media Systems, Public Sphere
Jun 22 2013
Finland: a tough Nordic accountant that is caught up by reality
8 CommentsBy Paul Jonker-Hoffrén Finland is a quite unlikely country to play a prominent role in policy-making around the Eurocrisis. It is, after all, a small country of just over 5 million inhabitants on the (geographical) fringe of the European union. … Continue reading
Posted by: June 22, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, Blame, Triple A economies
May 1 2013
Managing a European Recovery: The Case for Public Spending for an Energy Transition
5 CommentsBy 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
Posted by: May 1, 2013
Tagged with: Afzal Siddiqui, Blame, Crisis, Energy Transition, Eurozone crisis, Recovery, Renewables, Stimulus
Apr 28 2013
The Implications of Nazi-comparisons in Current European Discourse
1 CommentBy 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
Posted by: April 28, 2013
Tagged with: Blame, Contested, Crisis, discourse, Eurozone crisis, Maria Brock, Nazi comparison, Rui Lopes
Apr 12 2013
Fairness, Bail-in/outs and the Poor Germans
4 CommentsBy 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
Posted by: April 12, 2013
Tagged with: Bailout, Blame, Crisis, Cyprus, Cyprus bail-out plan, Cyprus deposits haircut, Eurogroup decision on Cyprus
Mar 22 2013
The Politics of Blame
15 CommentsBy Max Hänska When things go wrong someone is blamed. Throughout the current crisis there have been several convenient scapegoats: the EU itself, southern European countries and Germany, among others. Passing the buck is an all too familiar rhetorical strategy, … Continue reading
Posted by: March 22, 2013
Tagged with: Blame, European, European Public Sphere, European Union, Martin Schulz, Press, Scapegoating, Stereotypes