Refugees and the complicated European response
Silvia Merler (Bruegel) gives a sense of urgency through a detailed look at the numbers of the refugee crisis and the European...
BLOGSPOT: IS QE THE MIRACLE WAND FOR EUROPEAN ISSUES? AN ASSESSMENT
A resilient but weak growth in Europe: Looking for new strategies Although the IMF downgraded its global growth forecast for 2015 from...
BlogSpot - Grexit and QE talks... again!
That Grexit talk again Noise around Greece continues to be loud—with an upcoming visit of the Greek prime minister to Germany (DW),...
BlogSpot - Negative yields and the zero-lower bound
The Anomaly of Negative yields? Negative yields are increasingly prominent in Europe. Jeremie Cohen-Setton (Bruegel) reflects in a...
BlogSpot - (Finally) Green shoots in Europe
Positive news are emerging in Europe, translated in financial markets by stocks at new highs, credit spreads at record lows near 50bp in...
BlogSpot - Greece: a new agreement
The Eurogroup reached an agreement on Greece last week (with the Greek government’s comment), reviewed in details in EuroIntelligence:...
BlogSpot - Greece: Is it the right time to get rid of austerity?
After being first bailed out in 2010, Greece has undertaken broad economic reforms to mend its public finances and return to growth...
BlogSpot - The oil price slump and the Swiss move
Oil price slump: a panacea for EU economies? The 50% plunge in oil price since June 2014 is a positive shock for the EU as oil is the...
Thematic BlogSpot - Can Structural Reforms Save the Eurozone?
Structural reforms are increasingly called upon to restore solid economic growth, especially in the eurozone, where monetary policy lacks...
BlogSpot - November 24th, 2014
The uncertain investment plan The leaked investment plan—With investment trending down in the euro area (Guntram Wolff), the Juncker’s...
