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Tag Archives: Eurozone
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
Nov 6 2019
Democracy without choice – or just ‘the economy, stupid’? Political support during the Eurozone crisis
Comments Off on Democracy without choice – or just ‘the economy, stupid’? Political support during the Eurozone crisisBy Daniel Devine Between 2008 and 2014, satisfaction with democracy and the trust people had for their political institutions collapsed across most of Europe, but most severely in Southern Europe. Was this decline about the loss of citizens’ democratic choice due … Continue reading
Posted by: November 6, 2019
Tagged with: democratic deficit, Eurocrisis, Eurozone, Southern Europe
Mar 14 2018
Could the Current Reform Plan Make the Eurozone Sustainable?
1 CommentBy Konstantinos Myrodias The Eurozone is recovering from a long crisis; growth rates are turning positive across the Eurozone after a decade, business confidence is rising. Current accounts are balanced after the brutal adjustment in the periphery. The overall unemployment in the … Continue reading
Posted by: March 14, 2018
Tagged with: European Minister of Finance, European Monetary Fund, Eurozone, Eurozone architecture
Jan 9 2018
Portugal: Euro Zone’s brightening socio-economic outlook
2 CommentsIn the present post, Lucas Juan Manuel Alonso Alonso analyses some of the more important points contained in the OECD’s 2017 Economic Survey of Portugal. It offers an analysis of the socio-economic position of Portugal once the austerity measures are … Continue reading
Posted by: January 9, 2018
Tagged with: Eurozone, growth, labour markets, OECD, portugal, taxation, unemployment
Feb 20 2017
The European Union at a Crossroads
5 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi The European Union is approaching a moment of difficult decisions which will determine whether it will manage to survive in the near future or whether it will enter the final trajectory of its dissolution. In the past … Continue reading
Posted by: February 20, 2017
Tagged with: Angela Merkel, Crisis, Decline of Europe, EU, Euro crisis, Europe, European Central Bank, European Union, Euroscepticism, Eurozone, Italian decline, Italian economy, Italy, Renzi
Mar 4 2016
Argentina debt restructuring deal – 15 years too late!
6 CommentsBy Kanad Bagchi On 28th February 2016, Argentina finally reached a settlement with the rest of its holdout creditors lead by Elliot Management in what is being hailed as ‘historic’ signalling the return of Argentina to international bond markets. While … Continue reading
Posted by: March 4, 2016
Tagged with: Argentina, Creditors, debt crisis, Debt restructuring, debt sustainability, default, Eurozone, IMF, Sovereign Debt, sovereign debt crisis
Jun 7 2015
Greece – Deal or no deal? Parameters of a decision
5 CommentsBy Max Hänska It appears to me that much of the ongoing discussion about the Greek debt talks misinterprets the parameters of the challenge, and the resulting (irreconcilable) disagreement. Some economists attribute the standoff to the unwillingness of creditors to accept economic facts (Greece … Continue reading
May 22 2015
Are Italian Public Debt Forecasts Too Optimistic?
1 CommentBy Giuseppe Bianchimani Italy, a history of large public debt Italy has the third largest stock of public debt in the world, the second in the euro zone next to Greece and the highest debt service ratio in the G7. … Continue reading
Posted by: May 22, 2015
Tagged with: debt crisis, debt-to-GDP ratio, Euro, Eurozone, growth, Italian economy, Italian public debt
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
Mar 12 2015
Germany, the giant with the feet of clay
4 CommentsBy Terence Tse and Mark Esposito On the surface, it stands to reason to think that, as Europe’s largest economy, Germany’s position in Europe can act as the saviour to pull the Eurozone out of its current plight. By … Continue reading
Posted by: March 12, 2015
Tagged with: birth rate, education, EU, Eurozone, growth, Inequality, pensions, Reforms, unemployment