Friday, 13 April 2012


 eu reform treaty
  Irish still need considerable reforms-ECB's Asmussen
Reuters
Asmussen said Dublin's EU/IMF programme was on track but that like the rest of Europe, fiscal consolidation and growth enhancing structural reforms were needed for Ireland to remain competitive in the global marketplace. "So far Ireland has delivered, ...
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Is the World's Biggest Economy in Danger of Disintegrating?
CNBC.com
Fifty five years after the signing of the Treaty of Rome which founded what is now the European Union, the EU finds itself at odds with the very countries that make it up: politicians increasingly put national interest and popularity at home first and ...
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The EU's Cure-All Cured Nothing: Why Germany's Medicine Is Killing Europe
The Atlantic
They actually ran budget surpluses during the boom years. (Germany was the one that broke the Maastricht Treaty's deficit limits). What's really going on is a balance-of-payments crisis. Capital gushed into Southern Europe during the bubble years.
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