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Tag Archives: Monetary Policy
Jan 28 2014
The Germans vs. Mario Draghi
1 CommentBy Henrik Mueller As the stress in financial markets is bound to return, the ECB and its president may run into a severe reputational crisis in the Eurozone’s biggest country. This column looks at the deeper roots of German anti-ECB … Continue reading
Posted by: January 28, 2014
Tagged with: Axel Weber, Bundesbank, Draghi, ECB, Eurozone, Jens Weidmann, Monetary Policy, Quantitative easing
Jan 13 2014
Europe is diverging: ignore it at your peril
2 CommentsBy Lorenzo Marsili In the optimistic 1990s, the introduction of the Euro was to represent the kernel of the European integration process. The single currency was meant to act as the motor for the “ever-closer” convergence of European economies, thereby … Continue reading
Posted by: January 13, 2014
Tagged with: debt crisis, ECB, EU, Euro, Eurozone, fiscal deficits, Monetary Policy, unemployment
Dec 10 2013
Democracy Nomen Nudum
5 CommentsBy Xavier Guillaume, Roberto Orsi and Vassilios Paipais The Eurozone crisis is much more than a sheer fiscal problem plaguing a number of countries in the South of the continent. It is rather a symptom of a diseased situation that … Continue reading
Posted by: December 10, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, deindustrialisation, Democracy, elites, governmentality, Monetary Policy, technocrats
Feb 20 2013
Newsroom Disputes – Covering the Euro Crisis is delicate and sometimes hotly disputed
2 CommentsBy Max Hänska Differences in reporting (and understanding) the Euro crisis don’t only exist between countries of the Euro zone. Within newsrooms themselves the appropriate way to cover and report the crisis is also disputed. A recent example from Germany … Continue reading
Posted by: February 20, 2013
Tagged with: Contested, FAZ, Monetary Policy, Newsrooms