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Populist Eurosceptics helped by Trumpists seriously threaten the EU edifice

October 11, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

The confrontation between the populist Italian government and the European Union’s leadership has already left a clear trail on the European ground that permits us to project the itinerary of this conflict in the future. The Italian government is an unorthodox coalition of the extreme right wing party Lega, under its rebellious leader Matteo Salvini […]

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Italian banks: It’s Rome’s turn to confront Berlin’s aggressiveness

January 5, 2017 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

Italy, after Greece, is now the next target of the archetypical Teutonic aggressiveness, aimed this time at making the life difficult for Paolo Gentiloni the new Prime Minister. The problems Rome has with the country’s banking system are being exaggerated and used by Berlin to either pave the road leading outside the euro area or […]

Filed Under: Economy, Eurozone, Policy, politcs Tagged With: Angela Merkel, Banka Etruria, Banka Marche, Berlin, Brexit, Cari Chieti, Cari Ferrara, Clemens Fuest, Danièle Nouy, Deutsche Bundesbank, European Central Bank, German ministry of Finance, Germany, Grexit, Ifo, Italexit, Italian banks, Italian minister for Finance, Italian Prime Minister, Monte dei Paschi, non performing loans, NPL, Paolo Gentiloni, Pier Carlo Padoan, Sabine Lautenschläger, Single Supervisory Mechanism, SSM, Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, Wolfgang Schäuble

Trump questions US – Europe kinship, approaches Russia

November 21, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

In a peculiar way, the five EU leaders who gathered last week in Berlin for a farewell meeting with Barack Obama, closely followed the outgoing American President in his hard line stance against Russia and Vladimir Putin. The Obama administration has been persistently pressing the Europeans to impose more sanctions on Russia on various reasons […]

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UN member states express their will to tackle global migration but specific actions are still missing

September 21, 2016 by Chris Anyfantis Leave a Comment

Last Monday the world leaders convened at the UN’s summit in New York and adopted the New York Declaration for Migrants and Refugees; a document that contains commitments about dealing with the global issue of the large movements of refugees and migrants around the globe. All 193 countries have agreed to share global responsibility in order to […]

Filed Under: Policy, Politics, Refugee Crisis, USA Tagged With: Ban Ki-Moon, Barack Obama, Bratislava, Donald Tusk, EU, European Council, Italian Prime Minister, Leader’s Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis, migration, New York Declaration, UN, UN summit

Merkel refuses to consider the North-South schism of Eurozone

August 29, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

The European leaders who form the EU ‘directoire’ may get together as many times as they like, but still appear incapable of solving the club’s existential problems. Last Monday the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the French President Francois Hollande and the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi met in Naples to relaunch Europe, after the Brexit. […]