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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe is diverging: ignore it at your perilIn the absence of a strong and concerted political direction, the EU is undergoing a process of structural...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Trouble in Austeria
Can the EU still be rescued following its disastrous failure to tackle the economic crisis?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The European social agenda: from flexicurity to flexibility “Tout Court”
European workers are less protected than ever: a song soon considered as the “anthem of a generation” in Portugal...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The myth of American recoveryBy conceding that growing inequality is the main challenge facing the US, President Barack Obama finally admitted...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Forget economicsEurope, and the process of 'forging a people', goes beyond economics. If the EU is to be a longstanding project,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Did Keynesian policies fuel the European debt crisis?Was the European sovereign debt crisis fuelled by Keynesian policies? Or has the structural framework of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe scale of debt in the western world now threatens a serious collapseThere can likely be no repeat of the 2008 bailouts, sovereign states do not have the capacity. But the accumulating...
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Published in: HomeEU economic and monetary disunionBacktracking on the EU's monetary union will be politically very costly, but in the absence of a genuine economic...
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Published in: HomeThe Eurozone crisis: no way backCreating a common currency area means replacing indifference by cooperation and conflict. In this sense the Eurozone...
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Published in: HomeReturn to national currencies? Not so fast!Oskar Lafontaine, the former Die Linke chairman and a figure of the German left, has recently called for a return to...
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Published in: HomeA short history of banks and democracyThe extraordinary bounce-back of the banks reveals the most disturbing, but least obvious, largely invisible,...
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Published in: openEconomyThe Eurozone crisis: what way forward?The simple truth unpalatable to Eurozone authorities is that small peripheral EU economies and even big economies...
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Published in: HomeTime horizons of transformation: lessons from the German unification for the eurozoneThe harmonisation of national economies inside the eurozone is essentially a clash of time horizons – the future...
