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08 January 2014
The ECB’s big moment
Europe’s banking union project has had many doubters since it started to be widely discussed in the spring of 2012. What is not in doubt, however, is
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20 November 2013
A Schuman compact for the euro area
Five years of crisis have pushed Europe to take emergency financial measures to cushion the free fall of distressed countries. However, efforts to tur
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05 November 2013
Manufacturing Europe's growth
Europe's policies should focus on the high-end industries that are driving Europe's productivity growth.
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17 October 2013
Users could be losers in 'EU vs Google'
The debate misses a crucial point: the purpose of antitrust law is to protect consumers, not competitors. Google’s undue penalization of a p
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11 October 2013
Germany needs a service sector to match its makers
Only 10 years ago, Germany was considered the sick man of Europe, but the German economy is now admired for its strength. However, important
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10 October 2013
Trade is the true test of the world’s green shoots
The government shutdown aside, news from the US has been encouraging; despair on the eurozone is abating; and the Chinese slowdown has been orderly. G
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30 September 2013
A new way for Germany and Europe
When the new German government takes over, it should not wait for long until it makes the euro area a central topic on its agenda.
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26 September 2013
Making the internal electricity market work
Why the economic pressure to create a comprehensive internal energy market is building
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24 September 2013
A New Greek Test for Europe
Europeans must brace themselves for another bout of political and legal turmoil. The Europe that emerges from it could look, for better or worse, very
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23 September 2013
Reshaping Europe’s financial system
With the upcoming Asset Quality Review (AQR) by the European Central Bank, Europe has a chance to fundamentally reshape its financial system to make i
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19 September 2013
Euribor and the limits of antitrust
The European Commission is investigating a suspected banking industry cartel, one of the many consequences of the opening of the London Interbank Offe
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13 September 2013
Brussels drops the call on Europe's single digital market
The European Commission's reforms are too coy about making the changes that would create a true digital single market.
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12 August 2013
The euro area needs a German miracle
Recent sentiment indicators of the euro area are encouraging but return to lasting health of the euro area economy will still require major further st
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09 July 2013
EU trade with Myanmar and the grasshopper problem
The European Union’s decision to reinstate Burmese access to the generalised scheme of tariff preferences (GSP) was the right move, bec
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08 July 2013
The rupee’s wake-up call
The Indian rupee has weakened rapidly in recent months, with the exchange rate against the US dollar dropping by 11%, to around 60 rupees, since early
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07 June 2013
Mehr Augen sehen mehr
Soll Deutschland einer gemeinsamen Bankenaufsicht auf EU-Ebene zustimmen, oder gibt Berlin dadurch zu viele Kompetenzen auf?