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5 September 2011Trichet Urges Italy to Speed Up Austerity Plan BY Gabriele Parussini, Sabrina Cohen

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet on Saturday urged Italy to quickly agree on and push for approval of economic measures aimed at cutting the country's budget deficit and

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19 November 2011Brink think BY The Economist

When Mario Draghi took over as president of the European Central Bank at the beginning of this month, it was felt that he had to prove his credentials in Germany. That task is made harder by calls

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20 November 2011Boring cruel romantics BY Paul Krugman

There’s a word I keep hearing lately: “technocrat.” Sometimes it’s used as a term of scorn — the creators of the euro, we’re told, were technocrats who failed to take human and cultural factors

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21 November 2011The eurozone and the US: A tale of two currency zones BY Philip Whyte

Europeans think it is all very unfair. They point out that, in aggregate, the eurozone is in no worse an economic position than the US: its public finances are in better shape than the US’s, and

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27 November 2011Should the Fed save Europe from disaster? BY Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Unless Germany agrees to the full mobilization of the European Central Bank very fast, the eurozone will spiral out of control. As The Economist put it, “The risk that the currency disintegrates

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29 November 2011'Germany as isolated on Euro as US was on Iraq' BY David Crossland

Market participants and EU politicians are starting to sound more apocalyptic in their warnings about the euro crisis as yet another make-or-break summit, on Dec. 8 and 9, draws near. Meanwhile

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13 March 2012Eurozone policy-makers place a big bet BY Simon Tilford

Have eurozone policy-makers finally managed to lance the boil? They can certainly point to lower borrowing costs in Italy and Spain as evidence of stabilisation. Many of them argue that this

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