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Brexit: Only Corbyn and May in concert can make the needed compromises

January 21, 2019 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

A small group of British Tory MPs numbering around 120 representatives are decisively planning to send Britain to the cliff in a no-deal Brexit. Before last Xmas, they triggered an intraparty procedure to oust Prime Minister Theresa May from the party Presidency and consequently drive her out from 10 Downing Street. They were in minority […]

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Draghi to lay his print on long term ECB policies prior to exiting next year

September 17, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

Mario Draghi, the President of the European Central Bank, was criticized by major global financial media for insisting to end the easy money policy this December. The argument is that, after ECB’s Governing Council decided at the end of the prosperous 2017 to end its extraordinary monetary policy, the world has become a riskier place. […]

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EU-US trade deal: Europe to Americanize its social model?

February 20, 2014 by Suzan A. Kane Leave a Comment

It can’t be both. Either the EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht hadn’t recovered from the transatlantic trip hangover, while speaking in Washington on Tuesday, or he thinks we are all morons. He said: “I invite all Europeans to also discuss their concerns about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (free trade deal)… Because […]

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Commission: Raising the social issues that can make or break the monetary union

January 22, 2014 by George Pepper 1 Comment

For the first time the European Commission recognises that the severe austerity measures enforced in the crisis hit Eurozone countries in the south of Europe, in Ireland and elsewhere, have undermined not only the well-being and the level of social protection there, but undercut also the very ability of those member states to regain non-cost […]