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Yet another Greek bailout will change nothing without structural reform

Philip Booth

28 November 2012

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Another bailout deal has been secured for Greece. Some of the country’s borrowing will be written off – it will be left with a debt to GDP ratio of 'only' 125 per cent. But is...

The ECB cannot save Spain

Juan Ramón Rallo

13 August 2012

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Madrid's persistent pressure for the European Central Bank (ECB) to monetise part of its debt is necessarily a self-defeating strategy. Once the Spanish government recognises that it is unable...

No ruse to save the euro

G. R. Steele

10 August 2012

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If ever you see a €100 banknote in the gutter, don’t bother to stop. If it were real, someone would already have picked it up. The same is true of a ruse to save the euro. Writing in the...

Is Greece trapped in the eurozone?

Holger Zemanek

26 June 2012

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Political instability in Greece and a further worsening of the banking crisis in Spain recently sparked a new wave of the European debt crisis. The possibility of Greece leaving the eurozone...

Holding on to the euro: the well-off and well-connected will manage

Philip Booth

15 June 2012

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There has long been support for the EU project in the Vatican but, as ever in these matters, we have to ask whether governments and supra-national organisations remain the servants of the people or...

The Spanish bailout is no solution at all

Juan Ramón Rallo

12 June 2012

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Although the Spanish government refuses to tell the truth to the citizenry, both the government and the banks have clearly been bailed out by the Eurogroup. Spain’s financial entities,...

Greece and the eurozone: staying in may be riskier than exiting

André Azevedo Alves

30 May 2012

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As odd as it may seem, Alexis Tsipras may well be the eurozone's best hope at the moment. As Greece heads towards new elections and a clear majority of the electorate is seemingly...

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