Category Archives: Media Coverage

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 →

Posted in A € for your Thoughts, Aides Memoire, Banking, Blog Maintenance, Brazil, China, Current Events, ECB, Economic Concepts, Euro-zone Update, European Integration, European Interdependences, European National Politics, Finance, History, Indicators, Inflation, Media Coverage, News Round up & Comment, Political Concepts, Risk Scenario Analysis, Sovereign debt Crisis, UK, USA, Visions of the Political Future of Europe, Week Ahead, Weekly Bond Yield developments in the Euro Area, World Affairs | Leave a comment

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

2014 European Parliament Election Review – It’s not the end of the world…

Posted on May 28, 2014 by fmpdea

Following last Sunday’s European Parliament election the press has been gloomy and for a time, so was I. This is a quick post to see the forest and the trees and to consider “how much wood can these wood chucks … Continue reading →

Why I think the ECB is not about to cut the MRO rate

Posted on May 1, 2013 by fmpdea

On Thursday May 2nd, the Governing Council of the ECB will hold is monthly meeting to determine the path of monetary policy. The market consensus seems to be that the ECB will cut the refi rate (MRO rate). I disagree. … Continue reading →

Posted in Banking, Current Events, ECB, Euro-zone Update, Finance, Media Coverage | Tagged Asmussen, Bank Lending Survey, Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission, Coeure, Constancio, Current Account at ECB, Deposit Facility, Draghi, ECB, ECB Balance Sheet, EONIA, GDP, Inflation, LTRO, M3, Marginal Lending Facility, Mersch, MRO, MRO rate cut, PMIs, Praet, refi rate cut, Target2, TARGET2 imbalances, Weidmann | 5 Comments

No Early Elections in Germany… But Almost?

Posted on January 14, 2013 by fmpdea

In the Summer of 2011 I stuck my neck out and “predicted” early elections in Germany, ahead of the scheduled September 2013 deadline. I was wrong. However, and probably as a consolation gift to myself, I review some a sequence … Continue reading →

Posted in Media Coverage, Risk Scenario Analysis, Uncategorized | Tagged Angela Merkel, Antagonism to Greece, bailout, CDU, Debt haircut, Euro-Zone Sovereign Debt Crisis, FDP, German attitudes to Greece, German Elections 2013, German Politics, Greece, Greek bailout, Haircut, Horst Seehofer, Mario Draghi, OMT, OMTs, Outright Monetary Transactions, Patrick Doering, Peter Ramsauer, Philipp Roesler, Rainer Bruederle, Summer 2012, Volker Kauder, Voter intention polls, Voter intention surveys | Leave a comment

Euro Update (19): Bruegel on Banking and Sovereign Debt

Posted on March 6, 2011 by fmpdea

I’ve decided to take a break, but as if to taunt me it seems people have decided to write more interesting things… More on that break later. For now I’d like to bring your attention to a group of articles … Continue reading →

Posted in A € for your Thoughts, Banking, Current Events, Euro-zone Update, Media Coverage, Sovereign debt Crisis | Tagged Banking crisis, Bruegel, Sovereign Debt Crisis | 1 Comment

Controlling the Economy: Discourse and Reality

Posted on March 4, 2011 by fmpdea

I must admit that the discussion by Mr Munchau of the recent developments in the ongoing debate about European competitiveness struck a chord with me. As I said previously, it wasn’t because I agree that “to think that Europe can … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Media Coverage | Tagged EU Military, France, Governance, Policy inefficiency, Statism | Leave a comment

A € for your Thoughts (3): Mr Bini Smaghi on European Fiscal Union

Posted on February 20, 2011 by fmpdea

Mr Bini Smaghi gave a speech in Hall, Germany, on February 14. His St. Valentines gift to Europe is interesting and much more complicated than this comment from the FT’s money supply leads us to believe. Honestly, I am not … Continue reading →

Posted in A € for your Thoughts, Media Coverage | Tagged Bini Smaghi, Community Method, ECB, European Fiscal Federalism, Intergovernmentalism, Sovereign Debt Crisis | 1 Comment

Euro Update (16): Mario Monti and the feckless Franco-German Pact for Competitiveness

Posted on February 12, 2011 by fmpdea

From left to right, the last panel at yesterday’s Policy Network “What future for Europe?” event was a gathering of eminences. Sitting in a row, Nadia Calvino, Lazlo Andor, Vince Cable, Peter Mandelson, Mario Monti and Dieter Helm took their … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Euro-zone Update, European Interdependences, Media Coverage, Sovereign debt Crisis | 2 Comments

Euro Update (15): Worsening Portuguese debt situation and sneaky debt auctions

Posted on February 10, 2011 by fmpdea

I’ve mentioned that Portugal would need to access international markets sometime soon, in order to finance itself. I’ve been painting a doomsday scenario about it. In my view all Portugal needs is for market jittery to be timed with one … Continue reading →

Posted in Banking, ECB, Euro-zone Update, Media Coverage, Sovereign debt Crisis | Tagged ECB, Portugal, Sovereign Debt Crisis | 1 Comment