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Collateral damage in Europe?
Like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming truck, EU member states and candidate countries aspiring to join the club in Brussels are watching with growing trepidation the escalating trade conflict between the United States and China. For many countries in Europe the two feuding states are among their largest trading partners after the EU.
Contributor: Jens Bastian
Categories: Europe (296), Economy (348)
The gruelling final straight of Greece's bailout
Much of the attention regarding the Greek programme has been on whether a precautionary credit line is needed or not. This has obscured other important elements that need to come together if the country’s third bailout is to be wrapped up promptly and successfully before it expires on August 20.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Europe (296), Economy (348), Greece (527)
How Greece sleepwalked off a cliff in 2009, in black and white
Nine years since facing bankruptcy and subsequently having experienced the most severe economic crisis in its modern history, which took away a quarter of the economy and employment, a country should at least have identified the reasons that it found itself in such a mess.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Politics (413), Economy (348), Greece (527)
A year of risk and reward for Greece
Greece enters a new year that could prove to be a watershed in its long and meandering traipse through three successive bailouts and faltering efforts to overcome the chronic weaknesses that contributed to one of the most damaging economic crises the developed world has seen.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (413), Economy (348), Greece (527)
The republic without a government
More than three months after the general elections Germany still does not have a new government.
Contributor: Jens Bastian
Categories: Politics (413), Economy (348)