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Margaret Thatcher’s Response to the European Commission – A Prescient Argument Against the Common Currency and European Union.

November 24, 2011
Common currency
Conservative Party
Euro zone crisis
European Commission
European Financial Crisis
European Union
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher's Response to the European Commission
Tories
U.K. Prime Minister
United Kingdom

European Pessimism and German Ambitions: Reasons for Worry?

November 15, 2011
Angela Merkel
Common currency
Euro Crisis
euro zone
Eurobonds
European Central Bank
European Coal and Steel Community
France
French foreign minister Robert Schuman
German Hegemony
Germany
Greece
Hegemony
Italy
Nicolas Sarkozy
Portugal
Sovereign Debt Crises
Spain

The recent financial crises spreading throughout debt heavy European sovereigns has called into question the viability of the common currency and the whole European project. In its initial stages, the European Coal and Steel Community was proposed by French foreign minister Robert Schuman on May 9, 1950 as a way to prevent future war from […]

Italian Bonds Nearing 7%, Calls for Berlusconi to Step Down Increase.

November 7, 2011
Common currency
European Central Bank
Eurozone Financial Crisis
Finance
France
Germany
Greece
Italian Bond Yields Reach 7
Italian Bonds
Italian Debt
Silvio Berlusconi

Italian bonds edged dangerously closer to the 7% threshold at which investors have determined Italy will have severe difficulties refinancing its debt or even paying it back in a timely fashion. The spread of panic from Greece to Italy seems to be controlled thus far but if Italian bond yields reach the 7% mark the […]