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The tag 'Angela Merkel' is associated with 24 posts.

Surprise! It’s not the eurozone crisis anymore. Welcome to the EUrozone crisis

Vague plans involv­ing loss of sov­er­eign­ty isn’t just for the euro­zone any­more. That’s not the kind of bold lead­er­ship that will calm the mar­kets and dif­fuse the finan­cial cri­sis. No, it’s going to make a much big­ger cri­sis to fix this mess.


History Teaches Us that We Learn Nothing from History, Part 2: It’s 1931 all over again

Fol­low­ing last week­end’s announced $125 bil­lion bank bailout in Spain, the ever present ques­tion of “what’s next” has been loom­ing larg­er than usu­al this past week. So has the past. As we all know, the past is indeed pro­logue. Espe­cial­ly the parts involv­ing mind numb­ing stu­pid­i­ty.


Merkel demands hand over of sovereignty before any other options considered

This is one of those posts that has an “ ‘End Game” feel to it. Angela Merkel is now demand­ing that euro­zone nations agree to a “fis­cal union” far more “sov­er­eign­ty-free” than ear­li­er pro­pos­als, and that’s a pre­con­di­tion for fur­ther con­sid­er­a­tion of alternative/additional finan­cial aid options. And on top of all that, the lat­est bailout fund comes with strings attached. Gold­en Strings. It’s get­ting ugly in the EU.


Official opposition to the eurozone austerity fetish becomes a bad joke

Sup­port­ers of Berlin’s aus­ter­i­ty dri­ve across the euro­zone were relieved by Ire­land’s approval of the ‘Fis­cal Com­pact’ on Thurs­day. But this ‘good news’ coin­cides with a grow­ing back­lash by key lead­ers an offi­cials against the end­less calls for aus­ter­i­ty with­out a ‘pro-growth’ com­po­nent. Except, as usu­al, not real­ly.