E.U. Crisis: The Cyprus Effect, And the Band Played on in Frankfurt.
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As another one bites the dust, the financial Opera sadly continues to play out a broken dream.Cyprus may not be difficult to bail out but the effect on Banker's and Federalist's moral must be devastating. The dominoes fall, the sinking ship takes on...
Silvio Berlusconi: please, not again | Editorial
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Another political comeback for the disgraced media tycoon is not as improbable as one would like to imagineCould it really be? A return for Silvio Berlusconi only a year after he was bundled out of office to the strains of "hallelujah" from the crowd...
The Closer
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ROUND-UPUS stocks fell off the (European) summit. Advance disappointment with the eurozone’s leaders this week helped push the S&P 500 down 1.6 per cent to 1,313.72....
Quel chemin va suivre la France en Europe ?
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Maintenant que les temps de campagne électorale sont passés la question est directement posée à tous ceux qui en écrivent le scénario. La situation financière de l’Europe tout au moins de certains pays n’est pas la seule dimension à prend...
The European Commission is Trying Too Hard
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The featured ad of the “Science: It’s a Girl Thing!” campaign seemingly seeks to attract young females to the sciences through high heels, short skirts, the gaze of an attractive man behind a microscope, hydrogen and lipstick. Makes sense. Yes,...
Clive James lives!
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“And so,” Charlie Brooker, “I think it is a good idea to speak about the good writers and good people who are left, as quickly as we can, while they are still among us.” And it is a good idea – so good, indeed, that we...
“Yammer time,” or how to generically write about Microsoft buying Yammer
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Step 1: Find amusing pic of Steve Ballmer. Oh, here’s one.Step 2: Ho ho, they did an infographic. Note to self: aim gun at head, pull trigger.Step 3: Rush through the deal deets:...
Joseph Stiglitz Sees Terrifying Future for America If We Don’t Reverse Inequality |
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“What will life look like down the road if we don’t reverse economic inequality? We must see through the myths of capitalism and build a mass movement if we are to save ourselves.” (Source: Alternet.org) Alternet has a really good interview...
The right and wrong debates about money market funds
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Amnesia, ignorance and disingenuousness are competing fiercely as a possible explanation for this comment:“In my view, you’re portraying an industry that’s extremely vulnerable,...
The EU in a nutshell
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I have no idea how people will vote when the In/Out referendum comes, but I’ve noticed one thing: whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers – our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, t...
A European Citizens’ Initiative against roaming
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Since April 2012, European citizens have a new and innovative democratic right: the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI). This gives citizens the right to propose EU legislation when they find the support of one Million people. Amongst one of th...
Taking The Positives Out of Euro2012
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Recently I got into a conversation about Euro2012 with someone who is, well let’s say, from the other end of the political spectrum. It turned out we both had gripes about how our respective political camps were interpreting Euro2012. Her main comp...
Will €130 billion be enough?
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By the end of this week the government leaders from the 27 EU countries should be able to present a plan for getting the eurozone out of the current crisis. Italian prime minister Mario Monti warned after the meeting with his colleges from Germany, I...
Citizens United Ruling Applied to States
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On the basis of the supremacy clause (Art. 6, clause 2) of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 on June 25, 2012 against Montana’s Supreme Court decision that had upheld a Montana law that stipulated that a “corporation may...
Hungary’s Budget Plans Face Risks
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The Hungarian government presented its 2013 budget bill much earlier in the year than is customary in a move it hopes will help improve market confidence and increase predictability. Critics say benefits from the step have been overshadowed by risks.
Monday miscellany
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What shall we do with Richard O'Dwyer? This Kat has not had the opportunity to discuss with the other Kats the whys and wherefores of the case of Richard O'Dwyer, who is facing extradition to the United States and a possible 10-year prison sentence f...
Turkey jet crisis unlikely to pull NATO into Syria
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By SLOBODAN LEKIC and SUZAN FRASER BRUSSELS — Syria’s downing of a Turkish fighter-bomber has the feel of a turning point that could drag Western powers into a conflict that is spiraling out of control. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
Join the discussion by taking part in our UK Launch!
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To help us kick off our project at the London School of Economics on 28 June we want to open up the debate and get ideas from across the twittersphere on one of our major topics of discussion and even … Continue reading →...
Berlin's multicultural music mix: subsuming Berlin
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Street art like Welcome to Schwabylon is everywhere in Berlin. Schwabylon was originally coined in 1973 as a name of a huge Munich shopping mall which proved unsustainable - much like the concept behind another word the Germans invented in the 70s: m...
Good Reads 25/06/12
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Each week, two E&M editors share their favourite European reads. From blog posts to essays, it can be anything that amused them, worried them or got them thinking about Europe. Juliane, Diaphragm Editor Feminism: It's a girl...
Good Reads 25/06/12
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Each week, two E&M editors share their favourite European reads. From blog posts to essays, it can be anything that amused them, worried them or got them thinking about Europe. Juliane, Diaphragm Editor Feminism: It's a girl...
Schäuble struck the right cord
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We need to broaden our horizon.SPIEGEL: You propose the transfer of many national competencies. What happens to democratic legitimation?Schäuble: Some things would have to change in that respect, too, because nowadays everyone has a say: the Europea...
Political union is transfer union
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It is very often suggested that there is no point looking at solutions to the European crisis that don’t involve more “political union”, an EU institutional term meaning a move towards a more centralised and “federal” (i...
From voxeu.org: Banking union instead of Eurobonds – disentangling sovereign and banking crises
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If you missed this piece on voxeu.org, by Beck, Gros and Schoenmaker, well, it's worth reading!A couple of paragraphs for giving you a taste:Matching supervision and resolution frameworks to the geographic perimeter of larger cross-border banks has b...
Cyprus needs bailing, says Cyprus
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This had been a long while coming… Flashes from Reuters at pixel time:16:57 – CYPRUS APPLIES FOR EU BAILOUT - GOVERNMENT STATEMENT17:00 – CYPRUS SAYS BAILOUT...
The Tech Fix for Global Poverty
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Is technology the answer to solving global poverty? In this post, Jim Kunder examines several organizations' findings on the use of technology in eliminating poverty.
