No Good News From Greece
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Today's negotiations in Greece on the creation of a government of technocrats have broken down. Talks will resume tomorrow morning, but only in order to appoint a caretaker cabinet which will remain in office until new elections take place - in all l...
Greece: when the lights go out
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The desperate cunning scheme to get Greeks to pay property taxes by bundling them with electricity bills didn’t last long. You guessed it, people stopped paying their electricity...
The euro crisis: Kabuki characters in a Greek drama
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Juncker: "I don't envisage even for one second Greece leaving the euro-area. This is nonsense, this is propaganda,"While Greece is burning, the euro zone decision makers are continuing their version of the traditional Japanese kabuki theat...
"Democratizing the Eurozone" by Vivien Schmidt
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In recent months, more and more attention has been focused on the failure of the Eurozone leaders’ policies of fiscal consolidation, with growth presented as the alternative. The problems for the Eurozone stem not just from the policies, however. ...
Groping towards Grexit
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The euro zone's leaders fall out over the prospect of Greece's exit from the euro...
Generation YES is back!
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YOUTH campaign group Generation YES is back and is saying ‘Yes’ to the referendum on the stability treaty. The group, which formed to burst the bubble on myths around the Lisbon Treaty, have re-launched to challenge what they see as fear-mongerin...
Four out of five Greek voters still committed to the euro: Will the Greek anti-austerity parties blink first?
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Over on the Telegraph blog, we argue: There’s a paradox at the heart of the Greek euro debate: voters have comprehensively rejected EU-mandated austerity – parties that are (more or less) in favour of ripping up the bailout conditions muste...
How Hollande should handle Merkel
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By Charles GrantThe election of François Hollande as French president has excited some of those who blame Germany’s emphasis on fiscal austerity for many of the eurozone’s ills. Hollande has promised to refocus EU policies on growth and employme...
Quo vadis Jens Weidmann?
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On May 7 2012, Jens Weidmann, the president of the Deutsche Bundesbank published an article in the Financial Times titled “Monetary policy is no panacea for Europe’s ills“. From the title one might expect to read a series of...
Europe needs the far left to win in Greece.
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Imagine if the July 1944 plot had been successful, and Hitler had been killed, and the coup had succeeded. The war could possibly have ended earlier. But imagine Hitler’s reputation today, as the guy who could have won the war for Nazi Germany...
Cyberculture roundup: Pirate Bay vs. Anonymous, Cybarmegeddon, New smartphone user research, “Few Companies Fight Patriot Act Gag Orders
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TweetShare via emailPirate Bay to Anonymous: DDoS is censorship, cut it out from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow A good-tempered rebuke from The Pirate Bay to the Anons who staged a raid on Virgin Media in protest of the ISP’s participation in blo...
The Week in Bloggingportal: News from European carrier pigeons
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We here at the Bloggingportal.eu ivory towers do not know for sure who won the French presidential elections last week. We are still waiting for the postman to transport the letter with the official results through the well-established European netwo...
