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A summit of little substance
Agoraand allegations that the US intelligence authorities had tapped the mobile phone of German Chancellor Angela... and Chancellor Merkel used the first opportunity after the German elections – provided by the (new) NSA
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After Merkel, Samaras faces immediate challenges on domestic front
PoliticsGreek Politics, despite German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble suggesting before the German elections that further
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Of symmetry and adjustments in the eurozone
Agora, forcefully defended by the German government, but also dominant in the EU institutions, has its theoretical... on the political arena, where influence goes hand in hand with economic power. By choosing the German economic
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The EU, the troika inquiry and the big disconnect
Agorathe main decision-making vehicle. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble argued recently... by their finance minister. A carbon copy response was given by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter
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Buying time: The delayed crisis of democratic capitalism - a review
Agora. The Cologne-based German sociologist Streeck has written a thought-provoking book in the best... as evidenced by various resignations of German members from its governing council during the past three years
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Samaras hopes for Merkel fillip as gloom grips Greek coalition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAmid an increasingly gloomy atmosphere at home, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras heads for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday in the hope that he will bring something back from... the German leader’s backing as a troika review was in danger of foundering on differences over
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Samaras plots early bailout exit, plays down debt relief as Merkel remains tight-lipped
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras unveiled his plans for Greece to exit its adjustment programme early - at the end of this year - in a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that did... of the focal points of any election campaign. While the German chancellor said she could see the first “tender
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Why is Europe worrying about SYRIZA?
Agorathe accounting tricks of the Juncker plan. SYRIZA may seem radical to some German economists. But it is in good... to the increasingly harsh tones used in particular by the German government. In case of a SYRIZA
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After Schaeuble talks, Greek gov't still focussed on ditching existing bailout
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA meeting between Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble in Berlin on Thursday failed to result in any agreement but underlined the SYRIZA-led coalition... that the two men had “agreed to enter deliberations as partners.” The German finance minister appeared
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Newsletter 15 - 13/02/2015
mechanism will be more complicated. The German Finance Ministry, for instance, made it clear on Friday..., European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, US officials and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble
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