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Combating Youth Unemployment:The latest European fad?

14 June, 2013
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Gros, Daniel, (2013), “Combating Youth Unemployment: The latest European fad?”, CEPS, Ceps Commentaries in Economic Policy, 14 June. When examining youth unemployment in the broader context of its contribution to total unemployment in Europe, Daniel Gros finds in this new Commentary that the problem reveals a completely different picture from the one usually presented.  Extreme figures on youth unemployment in the periphery hide the fact that the number of actually …Read More

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Social protection budgets in the crisis in the EU

12 June, 2013
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Bontout, Ol., Lokajickova, Ter., (2013), “Social protection budgets in the crisis in the EU”, DG for Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion, Working Paper-01/2013. The first working paper in the 2013 series reviews social protection expenditure developments in the crisis, focusing on expenditure trends in volumes following the peak of the crisis (2009), on changes in the distribution of incomes and, notably, on the distributional impact of austerity packages.

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Building a Strengthened Fiscal Framework in the European Union: A Guide to the Stability and Growth Pact

12 June, 2013
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Frayne, Christine,  Jaffee, Elizabeth,  Riso, Stéphanie, (2013),  “Building a Strengthened Fiscal Framework in the European Union: A Guide to the Stability and Growth Pact”, European Economy, Occasional Papers, N.150. This publication provides a non-technical overview of the Stability and Growth Pact, the rule-based framework for fiscal policy in the European Union. It is divided into two sections. The first section provides a historical look at the evolution of the SGP’s …Read More

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Europe’s Way Out

12 June, 2013
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Rodrik, Dani (2013), “Europe’s Way Out”, www.project-syndicate.org, 12 June. It seems that austerity is out of fashion in the eurozone – at least for the moment. The European Commission has given Spain, France, and the Netherlands more time to comply with the European Union’s 3%-of-GDP deficit ceiling. Even German government officials now concede that something more than fiscal belt-tightening is needed to revive the economies of the eurozone periphery.

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The New Rome: The EU and the Pillage of the Indebted Countries

31 May, 2013
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Polychroniou, C.J., (2013), “The New Rome: The EU and the Pillage of the Indebted Countries”, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, May. The European Union (EU) is a treaty-based organization that was set up after World War II as a means of putting an end to a favorite practice of the Europeans: sorting out their national differences by engaging in bloody warfare. The European experiment—the formation of a Common Market, …Read More

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Germany: A Global Miracle and a European Challenge

31 May, 2013
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Bastasin, Carlo, (2013), “Germany: A Global Miracle and a European Challenge”, Brookings Institute, May. In 1994, five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Germans feared that the unification of the two Germanys had failed. In 1997 the term “Reformstau” (the reform deadlock) had been elected as the “word of the year”. In 1999 and 2000 the weekly magazine The Economist called Germany “the sick man of Europe”. …Read More

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Time to move north?

27 May, 2013
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Barslund, Mikkel,  Busse, Matthias,  (2013), “Time to move north?”, CEPS Commentaries, 27 May. A staggering one out of every four young people is presently unemployed in Spain. And comparable numbers in Greece, Portugal and Italy are hardly more encouraging. Germany, on the other hand, enjoys a historically low youth unemployment rate of 8% and is experiencing skill shortages in some occupations. Against this background, this Commentary calls upon the European …Read More

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Europe’s Troika Should Grow Up

27 May, 2013
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Pisani-Ferry, Jean, (2013) “Europe’s Troika Should Grow Up”, www.project-syndicate.org, 27 May 2013. In early 2010, a group of men (and a few women) in dark suits landed in Athens. They belonged to a global institution, the International Monetary Fund, and to a pair of regional ones, the European Commission and the European Central Bank. Their mission was to negotiate the terms and conditions of a financial bailout of Greece. A …Read More

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