‘For Europe’ – Finally Some Visions
by Ferdi De Ville Since the outbreak of the euro crisis, many observers, including yours truly, have lamented the lack of vision in the way European leaders have dealt with the eurozone’s problems....
View ArticleGreek Days Have Started
by Carsten Brzeski With three meetings in less than two weeks, eurozone finance ministers hope to finally strike a deal on giving Greece more time for its adjustment. The decisive phase for Greece has...
View ArticleHow Euro Area Trade with the Rest of the World Contributed to the Euro Crisis
by Ferdi De Ville Right at the time that the euro crisis had begun (to the relief of decision makers) to retreat from the front pages of newspapers, in Belgium the Ford Genk tragedy happened. The...
View ArticleTowards a Eurozone Budget
by Daniela Schwarzer One of the important debates ahead of the EU summit in December is the one on a potential future eurozone budget. There are many competing ideas around what to do with a potential...
View ArticleLaunching a European debate?
by Ferdi De Ville Thus is the subtitle of the Communication from the European Commission ‘A blueprint for a deep and genuine economic and monetary union’ presented by President Barroso on 28 November....
View ArticleEconomic Liberalism and Democracy
by Daniela Schwarzer More and more, the debate in Europe is turning towards the question whether we are facing a crisis of legitimacy or even democracy in the EU – on top of the banking and sovereign...
View ArticleTechnocracy versus Democracy
by Daniela Schwarzer The fact that the crises hit the euro area so hard revealed fundamental flaws in the architecture of the currency union. The absence of joint fiscal and economic policies or...
View ArticleCrisis Management and Integration at Gun Point
by Daniela Schwarzer The ways decision-making that has taken place both in crisis management and in governance reform has increased the perception of democratic deficits in the EU. At peaks of the...
View ArticleA Good Week for the Euro?
by Ferdi De Ville Those that still doubted that the EU was a right choice for the Nobel Peace Prize have been rebuked by the Heads of State and Government of the euro area at last week’s summit...
View ArticleThe Euro Crisis in 2012: Belief, Will it be Enough?
by Ferdi De Ville This is my final entry in this blog on the euro crisis in 2012. Many things have happened and been decided and installed the past year, too many to recap them all here. There have...
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