January 21, 2008 Lagarde Says EU Growth Prospects Better Than U.S. on Solid Fundamentals Europe’s debt crisis only seems like it has gone on forever. This series of blog posts looks at headlines from this date in previous years that...
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Europe on the Potomac
So much for claims that Europe is in terminal decline, its economic and political model devoid of appeal elsewhere. As the U.S. fiscal cliffhanger showed, European decision-making practices are becoming all the rage in Washington. True, political America took only...
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Collapse? Slow Decline? Renaissance?
Just as the ceremony awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union was coming to a triumphant, Beethoven-accented crescendo in Oslo yesterday, spy agencies in Washington released their unclassified guesstimates about the world in 2030 with pointed words for...
Read more »Today in Euro Crisis History: Birth of the G-20
November 15, 2008 G-20 Calls for `Broad’ Policy Action as Major Economies Weaken World leaders agreed more must be done to shore up the global economy and improve regulation of financial markets, leaving details on how to do that to...
Read more »Today in Euro Crisis History: Geologic Time
Europe’s debt crisis only seems like it has gone on forever. This series of blog posts looks at headlines from this date in previous years that highlight the roots, twists and turns of the current turmoil. September 26, 2009 G-20...
Read more »Today in Euro Crisis History: Going Rogue Dept.
Europe’s debt crisis only seems like it has gone on forever. This series of blog posts looks at headlines from this date in previous years that highlight the roots, twists and turns of the current turmoil. September 24, 2008 MCCAIN...
Read more »Today in Euro Crisis History: Overstatement of the Year, 2008
Europe’s debt crisis only seems like it has gone on forever. This series of blog posts looks at headlines from this date in previous years that highlight the roots, twists and turns of the current turmoil. September 10, 2008 LEHMAN...
Read more »Today in Euro Crisis History: The Prologue
Europe’s debt crisis only seems like it’s gone on forever. This is a series that looks at headlines from this date in previous years that highlight the twists, turns and roots of the current turmoil. August 1, 2007 BEAR STEARNS...
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Greek Reformers Face Gordian Knot of Regulations
Panagiotis Karkatsoulis, who works in the Greek Ministry of Administrative Reform and e-Governance and teaches at the National School of Public Administration, has some well founded theories about where Greece went wrong. One long-standing habit of government that helped the...
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U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney in New Hampshire
Romney Runs Against…Europe?
There’s no way the euro zone crisis was going to help Europe’s image in the rest of the world. But exactly how much reputational damage has occurred was highlighted in the victory speech given by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney...
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