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Thursday, October 11, 2012

BAE/EADS deal collapse shows national interests still rule when it comes to defence

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A lot of people on both sides of the Europe debate got very excited last month about the ‘Future of Europe’ report produced by a group of EU...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Perhaps the UK should join the banking union after all (here's why...)

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Update 11/10/2012: For the avoidance of doubt, this post was clearly meant to be lighthearted, we have pointed out plenty of flaws and in...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Berlusconi's farewell?

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Over the past few months, Silvio Berlusconi repeatedly suggested (but never 'officially' confirmed) that he intended to run for Pr...
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Monday, October 08, 2012

How to make Cameron's EU veto threat actually count

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On the Telegraph blog, we argue , Europe has just sailed up the agenda at the Tory party conference, with Theresa May suggesting curbs o...
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Birmingham: Three things Cameron should say on Europe and three he should not

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Over on Conservative Home, we argue , Conservative Party conferences are too often overshadowed by Europe. This has, in the recent past, l...
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Friday, October 05, 2012

Another cold front on the way from Europe?

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Ofgem's 'Electricity Capacity Assessment' , published today, makes for some interesting reading as we enter the winter. This i...
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Thursday, October 04, 2012

EU Summit: Everyone is a winner... for now

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As is traditional, a leaked copy of the next  EU Summit Conclusions has already been making its way around the media long before the summit...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012

EP Vice-President: send the military police to Catalonia

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What happened to the EU as a peace project?  To many of our readers, Alejo Vidal-Quadras (see picture) will not ring a bell, but he is ...
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The quest for a healthy European banking sector

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Yesterday saw the release of the hefty Liikanen report (a dense 153 pages) on the European banking sector. We’re yet to fully sift through ...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Spanish deficit: The saga continues

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Keeping count of how many times Spain's deficit targets and forecasts have been revised has become a challenging exercise. Following t...
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Labour and ‘Europe’: substance or party politics?

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Open Europe has just returned from holding two fringe events at the Labour Party Conference (write ups of these to follow here ), an occasio...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

Some preliminary thoughts on the stress tests for Spanish banks: lots of optimistic assumptions...

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Here is the full report (and the bank-by-bank results ) from the latest Spanish bank stress test exercise. Below we provide the key point...
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What keeps the folks in Brussels and Berlin awake at night?

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Possibly this graph - from our new report on the internal devaluation needed in the PIIGS for the euro to remain intact. Source: Eurob...
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Initial thoughts on Spain's latest austerity budget

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We’re still waiting for the full breakdown and figures behind the Spanish budget (which we will analyse and post in due course) but in the...
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Not quite a U-turn, but still big news from Monti

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Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has made an important announcement regarding...
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Germans vs Inflation: the battle continues

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In our daily review of UK and continental press, we spotted an interesting consumer analysis survey referenced on the front page of Bild ye...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Pressure mounts again for Don Mariano

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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's trip to New York for the meeting of the UN General Assembly is coinciding with a particularly e...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

A German euro exit 'not science fiction' for Il Cavaliere

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The Huffington Post has decided to go for a lengthy interview with Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for the launch of...
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Westerwelle's journey into fantasy world

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The report presented by the so-called ‘Future of Europe’ reflexion group of eleven European foreign ministers, set up by Germany's Gu...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

UK Government to announce repatriation of EU crime and policing laws (as recomended by Open Europe)

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The Sunday Time s yesterday claimed that David Cameron will soon announce that the UK government will repatriate some 100+ EU crime and p...
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Meanwhile, in the Far North

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One of the consequences of the eurozone crisis is that media, pundits and market analysts have been forced to become experts of what previ...
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Friday, September 21, 2012

The view from Sweden: Barroso is making it more difficult to be pro-EU

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This is spot-on. Sara Skyttedal, vice-president of the Youth wing of the European People’s Party – the pan-EU party Commission President J...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

ECB's own budgetary discipline not inspiring confidence

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With budgetary discipline the only game in town in the eurozone, it must have been a bit of an awkward moment at the ECB when they realised ...
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Creative Bailout Thinking, Spanish Style

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One should give some credit to the Spanish government for its determination in trying to make bailouts look like something else. Today...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Westerwelle's Future of Europe report - worth getting excited over?

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The so-called ‘Future of Europe’ reflexion group of eleven European foreign ministers, set up by Germany's Guido Westerwelle, to discu...
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Germany and banking union: building the chinese wall

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Update 14.15: Reuters has seen an internal document drafted by German MPs from Angela Merkel's ruling coalition - setting out their v...
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