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Euro emigration: safety valve or debt drag?
The problem is that the workforce may move, but national debts don't. And the exit of the former weakens a country's ability to solve the latter by putting a major drag on growth and tax revenues over time. #Debt #Eurozone #EuroCrisis #brain drain #emmigration
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Euro at minus zero: Some interest rates are turning negative!
European investors are now willing to lend at negative interest rates to AAA borrowers like Germany and the European Financial Stability Facility #Euro #EFSF #EuroCrisis #ShortPoints
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Moody's downgrades Germany's outlook to negative
Moody's also cited an increased chance of Greece leaving the euro zone, which "would set off a chain of financial sector shocks ... that policymakers could only contain at a very high cost." #WhyNow #Greece #Germany #Spain #Italy #EuroCrisis
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Will tiny Greece bring the mightly eurozone down?
The eurozone crisis, which seemed to be abating a few months ago, is back on the boil. And this time something may give. #France #Greece #Angela Merkel #Germany #EU #Eurozone crisis #EuroCrisis #
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Guardian UnlimitedFrançois Hollande: a year of living dangerously | Editorial
Political anniversaries are artificial constructs. There is no real-world reason why a president should be judged on his first 100 days, or even on his first year. Still less when his country is prey to the worst economic crisis in decades, and in the eu #François Hollande #Nicolas Sarkozy #Barack Obama
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EurozineWoolwich and Afghanistan: The connection
Professor of peace studies Paul Rogers insists that there is a connection between the shocking murder of a young soldier on a London street and "remote-control" attacks by western states. It's crucial to recognize this if we are to avoid such extreme vio #European Union #Paul Rogers (politician) #London
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Renewable energy accessEurope Sinks Its Flagship Carbon Trading Scheme
Although even proponents of the ETS saw the proposed reform as stop-gap tinkering, the EP’s failure to revive its faltering mechanism could have wide-ranging implications for renewable energy expansion in Europe, especially for countries without a feed-i #Europe #California #World Wildlife Fund