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EU summit: The early betting line
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The EU’s final two-day heads of government summit of 2010 starts Thursday and early betting is that it will be much quieter than the last time the 27 leaders assembled in Brussels, a gathering that set off a bond market panic which the continen...
Why Latvia Needs To Devalue Soon - A Reply To Christoph Rosenberg
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IMF Senior Regional Representative For Central Europe and the Baltics, Christoph Rosenberg, recently took me to task on RGE Monitor about my Latvian devaluation proposal (as did RGE’s own Mary Stokes), and I would like now to take a closer look...
The Czech Government Confirms the Afoe Recession Call!
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Wow everyone, I presume it is just a coincidence that my Czech Post went live yesterday, but gee, there’s nothing like being ahead of the curve, is there? Bloomberg is running this story this morning: The Czech economy may fall into a recession...
As One CEE Country After Another Visits The IMF Sick Room, Will Poland Be Next?
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Yesterday, the Ukraine received a USD16.5bn loan from the IMF and the IMF at the same time said that it would agree with the Hungarian government on a rescue package in the coming days. Under normally circumstances this would be good news for CEE ass...
Two Europes
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The perspectives regarding Europe seems to illustrate unfortunately the existence of two different European visions, an Eastern and a Western point of view. These differences can be easily seen in issues like workers migration, economical delocalizat...
Corruption
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This with many thanks to my excellent colleagues in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic Poland, Romania, Slovakia, who contributed screeds of excellent material that sadly could not be squeezed in to the storyCorruption in eastern EuropeTalking of virtue, c...
