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Give to the markets the Caesars' fall
Santander: “the reduction of the euro zone is an unlikely and unfeasible scenario”
Report by Julia Pastor, in Madrid| The news of the day in all European media is the Franco-German proposal to create a hard core Europe, which would consist only of the countries able to maintain fiscal discipline. The new euro zone would consist of nine countries, including Spain. The response of the European Commission, through its president Durao Barroso, was clear: “A divided union with an integrated core and disconnected…
Santander: "the reduction of the euro zone is an unlikely and unfeasible scenario"
Report by Julia Pastor, in Madrid| The news of the day in all European media is the Franco-German proposal to create a hard core Europe, which would consist only of the countries able to maintain fiscal discipline. The new euro zone would consist of nine countries, including Spain. The response of the European Commission, through its president Durao Barroso, was clear: “A divided union with an integrated core and disconnected…
Federal European Union versus Intergovernamental European Union
By Jacobo de Regoyos, in Brussels | The financial roulette russe has become a variable-geometry argument that serves both to justify an intergovernmental Europe and a federal Europe at the same time. Among the latter, we’d find most of EU officials, especially the president of the European Commission Durao Barroso, who believes that the EU must complete its monetary union with a real economic union. Yet, Barroso opposes the Franco-German…
What the Italian media says about Berlusconi’s vows
Il Sole 24 Ore “We are at the center of the world's storm, but we can quickly recover. Italy today needs international credibility; it needs people who know the language of markets and of States and who know how to speak to Countries of the euro area but also to Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Obama's United States as well as to the “new rich” countries of the world, starting…
What the Italian media says about Berlusconi's vows
Il Sole 24 Ore “We are at the center of the world's storm, but we can quickly recover. Italy today needs international credibility; it needs people who know the language of markets and of States and who know how to speak to Countries of the euro area but also to Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Obama's United States as well as to the “new rich” countries of the world, starting…
Not one sterling pound to save the euro!
To help or not help the euro zone? This is the question about which the British prime minister David Cameron is being forced to discuss in and out of his own government. Meanwhile, the reflections of the country’s economy look healthy only by comparison against the battered image of the European continent at the financial mirror. LONDON | You may not know Jeremy Browne, but when you read the recent remarks…
Investment banking and its fantasy profits
Adjustment Time for core Europe
France and Germany, the two core economies in Europe, need a correction like the rest of the eurozone countries. The French prime Minister Françoise Fillon on Sunday announced the second adjustment plan in four months, “ the most rigorous since year 1945”, whose aim is to obtain between six to eight additional billion euros. On the other hand, Angela Merkel confirmed that the German will benefit from a tax cut…