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Tag Archives: Eurozone crisis
Dec 11 2019
Why the European Stability Mechanism reform should be postponed
1 CommentBy Shahin Vallée, Jérémie Cohen-Setton, Paul De Grauwe and Sebastian Dullien. Eurozone finance ministers reached a preliminary agreement on a reform of the European Stability Mechanism in June, but failed to conclude it last week. The reform is now set to be discussed during the … Continue reading
Posted by: December 11, 2019
Tagged with: european mechanism stability, Eurozone, Eurozone crisis
Jun 27 2019
The European Periphery and the Eurozone Crisis
Comments Off on The European Periphery and the Eurozone CrisisBy Neil Dooley Nearly ten years on from the first Greek bailout, the countries of the eurozone periphery have exhibited markedly divergent recoveries. A popular narrative attributes the contrasting recoveries of Greece and Ireland to their divergent enthusiasm for following … Continue reading
Posted by: June 27, 2019
Tagged with: Bailout, debt, Eurozone crisis, Greece, Ireland
May 30 2017
How Portugal’s leaders exploited the bail out to pass measures they already supported
Comments Off on How Portugal’s leaders exploited the bail out to pass measures they already supportedBy Catherine Moury and Adam Standring During the Eurozone crisis, states receiving a bailout were required to implement spending cuts and other reforms in return for financial assistance. But to what extent did the governments of these states use the … Continue reading
Posted by: May 30, 2017
Tagged with: austerity, Bailout, domestic policy agenda, Eurozone crisis, portugal
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 7 2015
The Double Death of Europe
5 CommentsBy Adrian Pabst Introduction: the broken promise of peace and prosperity The continual crisis in the Eurozone and in Ukraine poses the most serious danger to Europe since the darkest days of the Cold War. Economic devastation in the south … Continue reading
Posted by: May 7, 2015
Tagged with: Accountability, Crisis, European identity, European integration, European Public Sphere, European Union, Euroscepticism, Eurozone, Eurozone crisis, Inequality, Islamic State, Nationalism, peace dividend, populism, Ukraine, unemployment
Feb 2 2015
How the Eurozone crisis changed Syriza and how the party can change the Eurozone crisis
6 CommentsBy George Kyris For years, conventional wisdom has said that the role of the EU in national elections is rather insignificant. Even European Parliament elections are often regarded as ‘second order’, where voters use the ballot box in order to … Continue reading
Posted by: February 2, 2015
Tagged with: austerity, European Union, Eurozone crisis, Greece, Political Parties, SYRIZA
Jan 28 2015
The End of Austerity in Europe?
5 CommentsBy Max Hänska After a spectacular swing to the left, away from a political establishment that ruled the country uninterrupted for decades, Greece’s election signals the changed mood that is taking hold of Europe. Austerity has failed. What economists have … Continue reading
Posted by: January 28, 2015
Tagged with: austerity, Crisis, default, ECB, elections, Eurozone crisis, SYRIZA
Oct 1 2014
Why Italy Will Not Make It
17 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi Three articles by prestigious commentators (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Roger Bootle for The Telegraph, Wolfgang Münchau for Financial Times) have recently appeared in the financial press about the economic situation of Italy and the (in)stability of its national … Continue reading
Posted by: October 1, 2014
Tagged with: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, austerity, Decline of Europe, default, ECB, Eurozone architecture, Eurozone crisis, Financial Times, German Constitutional Court, Implosion, Italian economy, Italian public debt, Maastricht, Mario Draghi, Neo-Keynesian policies, Neoliberalism, Reforms in Italy, Roger Bootle, The Telegraph, Wolfgang Münchau
May 29 2014
A Legitimization of the Italian Government More Than a Vote for Europe
4 CommentsBy Monica Poletti The overwhelming victory of the Democratic Party Elections in Italy rarely fail to surprise. The victory at the 2014 EP elections of the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his centre-left, pro-European Democratic Party (PD) came as a … Continue reading
Posted by: May 29, 2014
Tagged with: Democratic Party, Election, EU, Euro, Euro crisis, European Elections 2014, European Union, Euroscepticism, Eurozone, Eurozone crisis, Five star movement, Grillo, Italy, Nationalism, populism, Renzi
May 21 2014
The Crises in the Eurozone and Ukraine Have Heralded the ‘Return of Politics’ to European Integration
3 CommentsBy Luuk van Middelaar On New Year’s Eve 2011, a sober but moving ceremony took place in the Estonia theatre in Tallinn. Prime-minister Ansip withdrew his country’s first euros from an ATM outside the building, walked back inside and delivered … Continue reading
Posted by: May 21, 2014
Tagged with: banking union, Euro crisis, European Elections 2014, European identity, European integration, European Public Sphere, European Union, Eurozone, Eurozone crisis, Germany, Public Sphere