Category Archives: A € for your Thoughts

Where you can find me these days

Posted on June 13, 2019 by fmpdea

As expected, I have moved to fresher pastures. I have been the Economics Editor at sister publications NordSIP and Ekonamik since the beginning of January 2019 and want to invite you to check out our content. Both publications are focused … Continue reading →

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American & Russian pressures build momentum towards a European army

Posted on March 9, 2015 by fmpdea

Every-so-often, discussions emerge regarding the need of establishing a European army. This is an idea as old as post-WWII European integration and the European Defence Community proposed in 1952 that died with the 1954 veto of the European Political Community. Beyond the … Continue reading →

Posted in A € for your Thoughts, Current Events, European Integration, Visions of the Political Future of Europe | Tagged EU army, Javier Solana, June 2015 Council Meeting, Junker, NeoCons, Russia, USA | 6 Comments

3 Accounts of Euro-Zone Crisis Management

Posted on November 21, 2014 by fmpdea

If you are interested in EU integration and if you’ve been following the Euro-Zone crisis for the last 5 years, then last week would have definitely registered the publication of the following blog post by Peter Spiegel on the FT’s Brussels … Continue reading →

Posted in A € for your Thoughts, ECB, European History, European Integration, European National Politics, Finance, Media Coverage, Sovereign debt Crisis, Visions of the Political Future of Europe | Tagged Deauville, Debt haircut, Discord, Draghi, EFSF, Euro-Zone Crisis Management, European Leadership, France, Geithner, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Matt Persson, OMT, Peter Spiegel, Sovereign debt crisis negotiations, Tony Barber | Leave a comment

Italian Debt, Mutual Insurance, Fiscal Federalism and Fiscal Rules – Brugel blog posts

Posted on November 14, 2014 by fmpdea

As I mentioned earlier, in a very delayed reaction to a comment on European blogging, I’ve decided to start looking around at what other bloggers write and comment on it, while hopefully not neglecting to come up with my own … Continue reading →

Posted in A € for your Thoughts | Tagged Brugel, Credibility of fiscal rules, Debt Mutualisation, Delors, EU, European Fiscal Federalism, Europeans can blog, Italian debt, Italian growth, Italian Yields, Jim O'Neill, Mody, Vallee | Leave a comment

Looking around

Posted on November 12, 2014 by fmpdea

Two and a half years ago now, more or less, Bruegel published an interesting and inaugural blog post by Jérémie Cohen-Setton, Martin Kessler and Shahin Vallée titled “Europeans can’t blog”. Following a post from Ronny Patz, their point was that European bloggers … Continue reading →

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Introducing the “Visions of the Political Future of Europe” Series

Posted on September 25, 2012 by fmpdea

Some of the posts on this website try to offer rather technical economic and political descriptions of the dynamics driving political economies. Others have attempted to provide a review of recent events. There have been scenario analyses, quantified scenario analysis, … Continue reading →

Posted in A € for your Thoughts, European Integration, Visions of the Political Future of Europe | Tagged European Integration, Visions of the Political Future of Europe | Leave a comment

Market Volatility: with thanks to True Economics

Posted on January 23, 2012 by fmpdea

True Economics, has very interesting charts of 3-sigma-plus stock market volatility accross the UK, France, Germany, the US and world stock markets. To argue that the ongoing period of volatility represents a repricing of stock markets, associated with the financial … Continue reading →

Posted in A € for your Thoughts, Aides Memoire, Economic Concepts, Sovereign debt Crisis | Tagged Banking crisis, Mandelbrot, Normal Distribution, Sovereign Debt Crisis, Stable distribution, Stock Market Returns, Voltaility | Leave a comment

A € for you thoughts(7): Nouriel Roubini

Posted on July 19, 2011 by fmpdea

I believe that this article from Nouriel Roubini, at Project Sindicate, completes the post I previously wrote on the options for restructuring the (Greek) debt. In it he argues that ” A full-blown official bailout of Greece’s public sector (by … Continue reading →

Posted in A € for your Thoughts, Current Events, European Interdependences, European National Politics, Sovereign debt Crisis | Tagged Debt restructure, Intergovernmentalism, Nouriel Roubini, Sovereign Debt Crisis | 1 Comment

A € for your thoughts (6): Larry Summers, Wolfgang Munchau and Gideon Rachman

Posted on July 19, 2011 by fmpdea

Following last week’s developments, commentators have reached for their podia clamouring to the leadership to do something. I shall highlight three interesting contributions in the FT, from Larry Summers, Wolfgang Munchau and Gideon Rachman. The discussion deals with the issues … Continue reading →

Posted in A € for your Thoughts, Sovereign debt Crisis | Tagged European Fiscal Federalism, Gideon Rachman, Larry Summers, Sovereign Debt Crisis, Wolfgang Munchau | 1 Comment

A € for your thoughts (5): Cameron and EU & the general media on ECB Appointments

Posted on June 27, 2011 by fmpdea

In the middle of the ongoing mess in the Eurozone, heads must be focused in finding a solution and until then doing as much damage control as possible. That means responsible governing and responsible reporting. This is not exactly what … Continue reading →

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