The board of the IMF expressed its confidence in Managing Director Christine Lagarde after the launch of a French inquiry into alleged abuses of power. Ms. Lagarde took over the IMF in 2011 and her office denies any wrongdoing. In 2007, Lagarde was involved in a dispute with French businessman Bernard Tapie and the bank […]
Read MoreAfter receiving a bailout of €750 million in 2008, SNS Reaal was thought to be profitable but its capital limits left it below legal solvency amounts, forcing the Dutch state to take a stake in the troubled financial concern. The Netherlands’ Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the move was to insure financial stability, especially after […]
Read MoreThe bailout of Greece and the sovereign debt crisis in Spain has called into question the long-held notion that a federal Europe was all but an inevitability. Will problems of collective action ultimately doom one of history’s most ambitious political experiments? Will the affluence of the North and the dereliction of South sunder apart a […]
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