Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
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| 1. Living in a German Europe | February 8, 2012 |
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Thankfully, Angela Merkel – Europe's most determined and powerful politician – is at last listening to others. Vladimir Lenin was reportedly fond of quoting Karl Marx on... | |
| 2. Merkel says time is running out for Greek bail-out deal | February 6, 2012 |
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Talks on new austerity measures to continue Tuesday. Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, told the Greek government to hurry up and agree to further reforms in order to... |
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| 3. Delusion and denial in Greece and Germany | February 2, 2012 |
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Why both countries seem to be loosing their grip reality. It is becoming hard to tell whether it is Germany or Greece that has the looser grip on reality. The revelation at... | |
| 4. EU hopes for Greek deal 'this week' | January 31, 2012 |
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Greek deal on write-down of debts to banks would open the way for a second bail-out for Greece.
European Union leaders today expressed hope at the end of a one-day summit... | |
| 5. Poland threatens to derail fiscal treaty | January 26, 2012 |
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Tusk wants Poland to attend eurozone talks; leaders seek agreement on fiscal compact treaty. Donald Tusk, Poland's prime minister, is threatening to keep his country out of... |
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| 6. Agreement on terms of permanent bail-out fund | January 26, 2012 |
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Eurozone finance ministers agree on terms of the European Stability Mechanism a year earlier than planned. The eurozone's 17 finance ministers agreed on Monday (23 January)... | |
| 7. Europe's own human-rights crisis | January 25, 2012 |
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Europe's treatment of minorities endangers our core values. To many friends of human rights in Europe, the Arab Spring has been the most thrilling period since the fall of... | |
| 8. Edging closer to the mainstream | January 19, 2012 |
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Danes seek to opt in after opt-outs. Since Denmark took over the presidency of the Council of Ministers on 1 January, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Denmark's prime minister, has... |
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| 9. EU could benefit from US's Pacific focus | January 19, 2012 |
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Last year was a big year for US trade policy and 2012 could be more active still. In its first two years in office, the administration of US President Barack Obama was... |
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| 10. The many perks of being an Italian politician | January 19, 2012 |
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Why Germans are reluctant to help Italians. In a recent letter (“Fear and irrationality hold sway in eurozone's decision-making”, 5-11 January), Mauro Galluccio proposes... | |
| 11. Pointing the finger in the wrong direction | January 12, 2012 |
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Van Rompuy should not be blamed for the failings of the last EU summit. I was surprised to read the editorial in your 21 December-4 January edition (“The EU was poorly led... | |
| 12. A living will for the euro? | January 12, 2012 |
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The eurozone should emulate an idea used to put stricken banks back on the path to recovery. This is the year when the eurozone's survival pack will desperately need a new... | |
| 13. France pushes ahead with financial transaction tax | January 9, 2012 |
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Nicolas Sarkozy says he hopes other EU member states will follow France's lead; Sarkozy and Merkel discuss eurozone crisis. Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, today said... |
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| 14. Greek debt plan 'should be dropped' | January 6, 2012 |
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ECB board member says plan to involve private sector in cutting Greece's public debt should be shelved. A member of the European Central Bank's governing council has said... |
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| 15. Merkel, Sarkozy to push for financial transaction tax | January 5, 2012 |
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German and French leaders will discuss eurozone crisis at meeting next week. Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel will renew calls for a financial transaction tax at a bilateral... |
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| 16. News in brief | January 5, 2012 |
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Asylum ruling The European Court of Justice ruled on 21 December that asylum-seekers should not be transferred to a member state where they risk being treated inhumanely.... |
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| 17. Fear and irrationality hold sway in eurozone's decision-making | January 5, 2012 |
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Short-term decisions are affecting the entire bloc. You wrote in your latest editorial that – as the headline put it – “the EU was poorly led in a testing year” (21... | |
| 18. The paper clip, 3 January | January 3, 2012 |
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Protests in Hungary, Spanish debt worries and problems for the German president in our round-up of what's in the newspapers. Thousands of people protested in Budapest last... | |
| 19. Merkel, Sarkozy to hold talks on debt crisis | January 3, 2012 |
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Leaders of Germany and France to discuss next set of deadlines for solving the crisis. The president of France and the chancellor of Germany will meet next Monday (9 January)... |
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| 20. Hoyer named EIB president | December 21, 2011 |
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EU finance ministers give their support; German starts work in January. Werner Hoyer has been named president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), taking over... | |
