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Most popular blog posts in The Agora during 2013
Here are our three most popular posts in The Agora section during 2013. For those who have already read them, a big thank you from the Macropolis team. For those reading them for the first time, we hope it gives you an idea of what we do.
Categories: Europe (279), Politics (374), Economy (316), Society (135), Greece (479)
![Illustration by Manos Symeonakis [http://www.cartoonmovement.com/p/6035]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/12/23/euflagbank_agora_symeonakis-large.jpg "Illustration by Manos Symeonakis [http://www.cartoonmovement.com/p/6035]")
Europe missed an opportunity on banking union
In June 2012, at the height of the debt crisis in the eurozone, its leaders decided to create a banking union. Their aim was, as the conclusions of that summit stated, to: “break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns”. In this case, the sovereigns were members of the single currency whose economies were suffering.
Contributor: Kostas Karkagiannis
Categories: Europe (279), Economy (316)
What would Willy do?
One hundred years ago, on 18 December 1913, the former German Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Willy Brandt was born in Lübeck. The charismatic leader of the German Social Democratic Party and the Socialist International, who died 1992, has not ceased to inspire politicians and academics around the world with his books, speeches and especially his courageous foreign policy – the new Ostpolitik.
Contributor: Christos Katsioulis
Categories: Europe (279), Politics (374)
Debt relief or debt restructuring for Greece?
The two economic adjustment programmes for Greece from 2010 and 2012 as well as the sovereign debt restructuring from April 2012 and the debt buyback initiative in December of the same year have had a significant impact on the debt profile of Greece as a sovereign creditor. Greece’s creditor structure in 2013 compared to the point of departure in 2010 hardly bears any resemblance.
Contributor: Jens Bastian
Categories: Europe (279), Economy (316), Greece (479)
Of symmetry and adjustments in the eurozone
The global crisis that erupted in 2007 in the financial sector evolved into a local eurozone sovereign debt crisis in the fall of 2009, when Greece revealed serious problems in the management of public finances. Since then, the prevailing narrative has been what I called the “Berlin View”, calling into question the governments of some countries of the European periphery, particularly Greece, Spain and Italy.
Contributor: Francesco Saraceno
Categories: Europe (279), Economy (316)