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Friday, June 21, 2013
Coalition row over public broadcaster gets nastier by the day in Greece
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Ten days ago, we wrote a blog asking, "Will the closure of the public broadcaster set the scene for a coalition showdown in Greece?...
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Eurozone compromise on using ESM to directly recapitalise banks - a stopgap at best?
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Eurozone finance ministers finally reached a compromise yesterday which will allow the ESM, the eurozone bailout fund, to directly recap...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
The 2014-2020 EU budget: The deal that never was?
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After the umpteenth round of talks on the next long-term EU budget between negotiators from the Irish Presidency, the European Parliament ...
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AfD surges ahead... in the social media popularity stakes
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An online force to be reckoned with An interesting story in Die Welt caught our eye this morning on the success of Germany's new a...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
EU edges towards compromise on bank recovery and resolution plans
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Tomorrow and Friday will see the next round of meetings between eurozone and EU finance ministers respectively. The meetings will focus on...
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Le Monde's 'Up yours Delors' moment: Barroso is 'a 57-year-old chameleon in search of a good job at NATO or the UN'
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As we reported in our daily press summary , European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has drawn criticism from the French governme...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Full letter from the Cypriot President to the Troika slamming Cypriot bailout
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As we reported last week in our press summary and which the FT is today reporting on (and presenting as a bit of a scoop), Cypriot Preside...
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Europe's most important political party hits the campaign trail: a sneak peak at the EU section of CDU/CSU's election manifesto
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We've managed to get our hands on the CDU/CSU's draft manifesto for September's federal elections, which is not due to be off...
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Berlusconi: Let's breach EU deficit rules, no-one would throw us out
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With the next meeting of EU leaders only one week away, Silvio Berlusconi has stepped his anti-austerity rhetoric up by a few notches. He...
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Another UK win on single market safeguards in financial services?
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An interesting report popped up on Reuters this afternoon. According to internal documents seen by the news agency, the UK has secured ...
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The show(down) must go on: Coalition row over closure of Greece's public broadcaster continues
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Last week, we noted on this blog that the abrupt closure of Greece's public broadcaster ERT risked opening a rift in Greece's rul...
Friday, June 14, 2013
Mervyn King on the solutions to the eurozone crisis
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The FT has just posted an interesting and lengthy interview with outgoing Bank of England Governor Mervyn King (pictured), conducted by t...
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Deliberations begin as hearings draw to a close in Karlsruhe
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The hearing at the German Constitutional Court into claims against the ECB's crisis policies is now over. Day one saw verbal jousting ...
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Why France can hold up EU-US free trade talks
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David Cameron wants to use the gathering of G8 leaders in Northern Ireland next week to launch formal negotiations on the planned EU-US fr...
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Have the EU Referendum Bill's chances just improved?
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Labour won't be there on 5 July We have heard today that the Labour Party have decided not to turn up and vote on 5 July on the Co...
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Services liberalisation: David Cameron has one more reason to love Spain
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We reported in today's press summary that Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and opposition leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba have...
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A pan-European desire to clarify rules on free movement and access to welfare?
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To some, the Commission's decision, two weeks ago, to take the UK to the ECJ over its rules on EU migrants' access to welfare was...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Bernd Lucke sets out his alternative for Germany and the EU
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The new German anti-euro party Alternative für Deutschland’s radically different take on the eurozone compared with the rest of the German p...
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Got Milk? Writing the nanny-state into EU law
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Cute babies banned from formula packaging The European Parliament has agreed new rules that will regulate the labels and content of bab...
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Will the closure of public broadcaster set the scene for a coalition showdown in Greece?
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Imagine a Number 10 spokesperson announcing during the afternoon news bulletin that the BBC has become too expensive to run and will be sh...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
German Constitutional Court live blog: One of the most important cases in the Court's history?
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The German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe The German Constitutional Court’s (GCC) hearings into the legality of the ECB’s actions to ...
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Foreign Affairs Select Committee welcomes "Double Majority" voting at the EBA as concrete example of UK influence in Europe
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Double majority lock voting at the EBA was a significant and valuable use of UK influence In a report published today the influential ...
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Great speeches, Prime Minister, but now make EU reform happen
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David Cameron delivered a new speech on Europe today (it was not exclusively Europe but much of the pre-speech briefing focussed on this...
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