This Commentary identifies several key weaknesses and oversights implicit in the proposals on the table at the October 2010 European Council summit to discipline EU member states whose governments exceed EU deficit or debt limits. As a more effective alternative, the author proposes enlisting the power of opposition parties and the bond markets curb such excesses
Europe now must decide which countries and banks have access to funding, and at what cost. Drawing o...
While acknowledging that the sustainability of sovereign debt is a serious issue that must be confro...
In surveying the heated debate in the eurozone about austerity and the cost of high public debt, thi...
All in all, this Commentary finds that the Fiscal Compact signed on 2 March 2012 by all member state...
To counteract the powerful anti-Europe sentiments swirling throughout the EU today and to motivate E...
The Conclusions of the European Council on 28-29 October 2010 suggest the need for further consultat...
At this point in the crisis, Daniel Gros writes that the common currency can only be saved if the go...
The EU is built on the promise of peace, economic prosperity and–since the Maastricht Treaty–also fi...
The initiatives taken by the ECB in mid-March 2020 flatten the structure of interest rates and ensur...
This Commentary argues that the current crisis in the eurozone periphery is really about foreign deb...
The first act of the eurozone debt drama was about whether any European Union member country could e...
Following the Commission’s autumn forecast showing that only five euro-area countries exhibit a fisc...
The European Union has often been accused of having a ‘democratic deficit’. Ahead of the European el...
Much of the discussion about how to impose more convergence among member states of the eurozone has ...
This commentary points to the IMF as a prime example of the over-representation of Europeans in inte...
Europe now must decide which countries and banks have access to funding, and at what cost. Drawing o...
While acknowledging that the sustainability of sovereign debt is a serious issue that must be confro...
In surveying the heated debate in the eurozone about austerity and the cost of high public debt, thi...
All in all, this Commentary finds that the Fiscal Compact signed on 2 March 2012 by all member state...
To counteract the powerful anti-Europe sentiments swirling throughout the EU today and to motivate E...
The Conclusions of the European Council on 28-29 October 2010 suggest the need for further consultat...
At this point in the crisis, Daniel Gros writes that the common currency can only be saved if the go...
The EU is built on the promise of peace, economic prosperity and–since the Maastricht Treaty–also fi...
The initiatives taken by the ECB in mid-March 2020 flatten the structure of interest rates and ensur...
This Commentary argues that the current crisis in the eurozone periphery is really about foreign deb...
The first act of the eurozone debt drama was about whether any European Union member country could e...
Following the Commission’s autumn forecast showing that only five euro-area countries exhibit a fisc...
The European Union has often been accused of having a ‘democratic deficit’. Ahead of the European el...
Much of the discussion about how to impose more convergence among member states of the eurozone has ...
This commentary points to the IMF as a prime example of the over-representation of Europeans in inte...
Europe now must decide which countries and banks have access to funding, and at what cost. Drawing o...
While acknowledging that the sustainability of sovereign debt is a serious issue that must be confro...
In surveying the heated debate in the eurozone about austerity and the cost of high public debt, thi...