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EUROZONE

COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2014
Indecision drives European crisis treadmill
If we have learned one thing from the last four years, it is that the EU lacks the capacity to act decisively. The eurozone will not collapse this year, but its troubles are far from over.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 21, 2014
How to run the euro area
To manage the eurozone, a multifaceted approach is required to prevent a vicious circle of public- and private-sector deleveraging leading to weaker economic activity that in turn results in a further deterioration in banks' asset quality.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 9, 2014
Europe's prospects looked better in the 1930s
Unless policies change, economic stagnation in the eurozone is likely to persist, posing in some ways a bigger challenge to recovery than the Great Depression did in the 1930s.
COMMENTARY
Oct 24, 2013
Chances of eurozone reform
How will Europeans strengthen motivations for generally unpopular economic structural reform in debtor eurozone countries, given the political constraints in democratic societies?
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2013
Capitalism is destroying southern European life
The popular civilizations of Greece, France, Spain and Portugal appear endangered, because of a pincer movement by tourism and the north's economic doctrines.
COMMENTARY / World
May 20, 2013
France must lead breakup of euro
For France and for the euro system, the best strategy is to dismantle the monetary union from the top — via the exit of Germany and the other most competitive countries.
COMMENTARY / World
May 10, 2013
Euro exit by Germany would be a big mistake
Politically it would be a big mistake for Germany to exit the eurozone, because doing so would jeopardize the greatest success story of the postwar period in Europe.
EDITORIALS
Mar 30, 2013
Lessons of the Cyprus crisis
The collapse of Cyprus' banking system may have been averted thanks to an international rescue, but causes of the crisis have not been eradicated.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2013
ECB head Mario Draghi's opiate of the markets
From the standpoint of EU economic stability, the division of Italy's parliament into three mutually incompatible political forces is a terrible outcome.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2013
Divergence of policies in Europe, Italian style
Even if the eurozone's structure is modified to achieve the desired level of fiscal discipline, countries will continue to diverge in other important respects.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2013
In Europe, pieces are in place for a 'lost decade'
Although investors seem to think that Europe's leaders will do just enough to save their monetary union, the EU is likely to look back on a 'lost decade.
EDITORIALS
Mar 22, 2013
Big repercussions from Cyprus
Compared with the Greek, Irish, Italian and Spanish crises, the financial problems of tiny Cyprus should have been a quick fix for European leaders.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 18, 2013
Italy's taxing polls will impact fragile eurozone
The outcome of Italy's parliamentary election ? a battle between the Bersani and the Berlusconi coalitions ? will hugely impact the fragile eurozone.

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