Richard Barwell, A Eurozone Without Greece – It’s time to think more seriously about this possibility, Wall Street Journal, 01 April 2015. The 24-hour news cycle is causing a cacophony of speculation about Greece leaving the euro, the so-called Grexit. Amid all the arguments about whether Greece will or should exit, there has been a lot less thought given to what would happen if Greece does return to the …Read More
Dr Richard M. Ebeling (2015) “A World Without The Welfare State“, The Cobden Centre – Politics, 29 March. We live in an era in which few can even conceive of a world without the welfare state. Who would care for the old? How would people provide for their medical needs? What would happen to the disadvantaged and needy that fell upon hard times? In fact, there were free market …Read More
Nikolas Papageorgiou (2015) “The unspectacular Union“, The European Magazine, 24 March. From lobbyists to toasters: Why the EU is not as evil, opaque, or important as we think. Most people who dive into understanding how things work in Brussels find out the hard way: the way things work in this town is rarely, if ever, shocking enough to be bothered with. Like most things we hear about the European …Read More
Cash, B. (2015) “With or without them“, The European Magazine, 18 March. The UK is not an obstacle to harmony and stability. It is the EU integrationists who generate economic and democratic instability. Times change. I supported our continuing British membership in the Referendum of 1975, and I voted for the Single European Act in 1986. When we joined what would become the EU, we were led to believe it …Read More
Marino, B. (2015) “Liberal-democratic parties face unprecedented challenges, but remain a viable part of European party systems“, LSE EUROPP, 18 March. Liberal-democratic parties have been a stable feature of several party systems in Europe, but in recent years parties such as the Liberal Democrats in the UK and the FDP in Germany have experienced significant downturns in support. Bruno Marino assesses the challenges that such parties now face in …Read More
Weisbrot, M. (2015) “Will Podemos rescue Spain’s unemployed youths?“, Forbes Magazine, Commentary, 09 March. In just two months since it was created, the leftist party pushing for an end to austerity in debt-troubled Spain has won 8% of the vote in Europe’s parliamentary elections. Earlier this year, the electoral victory of Syriza in Greece marked the first government elected within the troubled eurozone to finally say no to European …Read More
Garton Ash, T. (2015) “Europe is being torn apart – but the torture will be slow“, The Guardian, 08 March 2015. This monetary union without a political one will continue to cause suffering and divide the north from the south “If the euro fails, Europe fails”: thus spake Angela Merkel. Unfortunately, the euro is failing, but it is failing slowly. Even if Greece grexits, the eurozone seems unlikely to …Read More
Interview: “Five minutes with Philippe Legrain: “The Eurozone has become a glorified debtors’ prison”, LSE EUROPP, 09 March 2015. With no lasting solution yet found for dealing with Greek debt, and economies in the Eurozone continuing to suffer from weak growth, how can Europe finally solve the problems brought on by the financial crisis? In an interview with EUROPP’s editor Stuart Brown, Philippe Legrain discusses the policy failures at …Read More
Offe, C. (2015) “European Democracy Is In A State Of Emergency“, Social Europe Journal, 06 March. Europe has had a rocky start to 2015. The Eurozone crisis is back on the agenda, a war is developing at Europe’s border and people across the continent seem more and more discontent with their political systems leading to the rise of different forms of populism. How healthy do you think is European …Read More
Davíðsdóttir, S. (2015) “Cyprus and Iceland: a tale of two capital controls“, A Fistful of Euros – European Opinion Blog, 06 March. Both in Cyprus and Iceland foreign funds flowed into the islands, in the end forcing the government to make use of extreme measures when the tide turned. These measures are normally called ‘capital controls’ which in these two cases hides the fact that the measures used are …Read More
