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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Should the EU be able to tax?
If you have the time, I would be enormously grateful if you would answer the following poll. If you want to find out about the desiquilibria in the EU and in the Euro-zone, please feel free to go through this … Continue reading
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Euro Update (6): Is the SPD signalling its availability for constitutional reform?
The FT seems to have become the channel of preference for European leaders to debate and lobby each other. After Jean-Claude Juncker and GiulioTremonti advanced the idea for common EU bonds(“E-bonds would end the crisis“), now the two top voices … Continue reading
Could Clegg replace Ashton in 2014?
It’s still “a bit” early, but that’s what this article from the Mirror argues. The article cites “Downing Street sources” as saying that the Prime Minister owes Clegg an enormous debt of gratitude for the recent vote on University tuition … Continue reading
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A New Deal for the EU/Euro-zone: A hard but desirable and feasible EU platform
If I was so crazy as to run for the office of president of the European Commission, I would want some fairly “radical” things*. I probably wouldn’t be able to get much of it through, particularly not now. In the … Continue reading
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Euro Update (5) – Ireland, ECB rates and bond purchases and the Necessity of Euro-zone bonds & Fiscal Federalism
Two things happened this week that I have not mentioned. First, and at the same time as the Greek rescue package maturity extension, Ireland was “rescued” by the IMF and the EU. Secondly, the ECB took some decisions that seem … Continue reading
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Tagged Community Method, EFSF, Eurobonds, European Fiscal Federalism, Financial Times, Intergovernmentalism, Juncker, Longer-Term Refinancing Operations, LTRO, Munchau, Securities Market Programme, SMP, Sovereign Debt Crisis, Theories of Integration, Tremonti
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Media Coverage: Trichet on European budgetary federalism and EUobserver’s delayed coverage
I mentioned that EUobserver had reported that the president of the ECB, Jean Claude Trichet, had told the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Financial Affairs that the EU should become a budgetary union, now that it is a monetary … Continue reading
Euro-zone update (4): Calls for Fiscal Federalism, More Stress tests and Structural funds
Many commentators have argued in favor of a fiscal union as the sole permanent solution to the present fiscal crisis of the EU, only to conclude it was politically impossible (see Martin Wolf and a many others in this article … Continue reading
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Tagged ESRB, EU Structural Funds, European Fiscal Federalism, Financial Times
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