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  1. Europe missed an opportunity on banking union
    Illustration by Manos Symeonakis [http://www.cartoonmovement.com/p/6035]

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    simply confirms the worst fears: The German leadership’s lack of vision and the timidity of other... and a system providing for common guarantees of deposits up to 100,000 euros. However, German Chancellor... German savings and regional (landesbanken) lenders, will initially be excluded from

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  2. Greek debt: A case of learned helplessness?
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    Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras admitted he was told by his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble when... existing private creditors, mostly French and German banks, got paid in full and escaped from Greece scot... debt relief have run out of meaningful arguments. The German finance minister certainly does not want

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  3. Greece: The gathering storm
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    of confusion is in contrast to the persistently blunt message being broadcast from German Finance Minister... 20, when he wondered aloud how Varoufakis would explain the agreement in Athens, the German... in the German Parliament, he insisted that no money would be released to Greece unless it completes

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  4. What will be on the agenda for talks between Merkel and Tsipras?

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    This Monday, the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will fly to Berlin to meet the German... and he immediately accepted the invitation. Following his interview in the German weekly Der Spiegel... that in light of the damage done to bilateral Greek–German relations in the course of recent weeks

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  5. Mangling the truth

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    a particular political purpose. First, local media picked up on a story in German daily Handelsblatt... had done enough to receive its next bailout tranche. The German paper reported... in Greece and a variety of stories claimed that German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was attempting

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  6. Newsletter 93 - 21/10/2016

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    with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande in Brussels to discuss this very issue. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, though, was adamant in comments on Thursday... adds, pointing out that the horror of the Second World War led to the creation of the EU. The German

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  7. Newsletter 103 - 20/01/2017

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    this week, with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble leading the debate. After suggesting last week... be approved by German MPs. “I wouldn’t recommend this to the Greek government. But I would be completely relaxed,” he said. “The German Bundestag would first need to discuss and agree on whether

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  8. The joke's on Greece
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    A Greek businessman, a Greek minister, a Greek opposition MP and a German official go to an economic conference. The German ends up being the only one that defends the Greek position. It may sound... government’s fault,” said the German official before going on to explain the complexity of the current

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  9. An unsettling role-reversal for Greece and Germany
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    At times over the last few years, German politicians have dreaded the choices that Greek voters were about to make. It is now the turn of Greek politicians to agonise over the choice that German... Grexit as an option during the campaign, made a strong return to frontline German politics. The 12.6

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  10. How 'clean' can an exit be? Athens snared between Rome and Berlin
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    newly appointed German colleague Heiko Maas how well Greece has developed. Meanwhile the latter’s... relief proposals for Greece. But the new German finance minister appears to have a rather different.... The German finance minister said “Nein.” In Scholz’ view three years are enough. The second issues concerns

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