Syriza’s victory opens Pandora’s Box in EU politics
By: EBR | Monday, January 26, 2015
Syriza will form a coalition government with the right-wing anti-austerity Independent Greeks, sending this way multidimensional messages to Brussels.
Greek elections: Athens plays with fire
By: Athanase Papandropoulos | Wednesday, January 21, 2015
This is what a leading member of the group of financial forecasts of The Economist notes, predicting at the same time that a non-continuation of the economic policy of the Greek coalition government will only lead the debt-ridden country to new adventures.
Greek elections: The electoral law determines either self-reliance or coalition!
By: EBR | Tuesday, January 20, 2015
The critical answer to the crucial question which all address, that is if self-reliance is possible and under which conditions, is completely unclear because it depends on many conundrums and unknown parameters which will finally determine the winner of the elections.
The crucial year for Islamism
By: Athanase Papandropoulos | Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The confrontation between the West and Islamism will be one of the most crucial points in 2015. As modern observers argue, large dimensions will be given over this dispute and it seems that blind terrorism would dominate in countries with numerous Islamic followers.
Greek elections: The ones who decide are the “undecided”
By: Athanase Papandropoulos | Monday, January 12, 2015
The climate is extremely heavy for Greeks in the European Union and the worst case scenarios have already been foreseen. Thus, on January 25th the ones who have not decided yet which party to support will actually determine the future of the country.
Four principles for an effective state
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Reforms are urgent, but difficult. To achieve them, a four-pronged approach is required: restructuring, competition, evaluation and accountability.
France and Germany: a moment of truth
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 30, 2014
France and Germany, which together account for half of euro-area GDP, are rightly considered the key to the euro area’s exit from the current impasse of low growth, falling inflation and increasingly dangerous debt trajectories.
The Eerie Silence Before the EU Reform Storm
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 30, 2014
The current combination of challenges facing the EU is extreme, even by the union’s crisis-ridden standards. That calls for an equally momentous reform effort.
What’s needed is a much more visionary EU industrial policy
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Over the next five years, economic growth will mainly be generated outside Europe, so the key challenge will be to fashion and implement an industrial policy that strengthens Europeans’ global competitiveness and preserves our high living standards.
Israel′s nation-state law motion shatters fragile equilibrium
By: EBR | Monday, December 29, 2014
How can a country be a full democracy when it is defined as a Jewish one? The fact that I need a week to explain it shows how complex this issue is.
The CIA’s road to infamy
By: EBR | Monday, December 29, 2014
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture contains little new to the attentive observer and nothing of major consequence.
The lost years and their importance
By: EBR | Monday, December 22, 2014
Politicians must acknowledge that time unfortunately cannot turn back. It is the only and the one of goods that cannot be reproduced but be at last self-destructed.
Redefining capitalism
By: EBR | Wednesday, December 17, 2014
While we have been correct to believe that capitalism has been the major source of historical growth and prosperity, we have been mostly incorrect in identifying how and why it worked so well.
Europe: Building a Banking Union
By: EBR | Monday, December 15, 2014
Without a substantial improvement in credit conditions, there cannot be a substantial economic recovery, particularly in the eurozone periphery.
Integrating Taiwan’s Strengths into Global Climate Action
By: EBR | Monday, December 8, 2014
Scientists inform us that modern industrial development has caused carbon dioxide concentrations around the world to exceed the carrying capacity of natural ecosystems.
Japan rolls the dice: a report from Tokyo
By: EBR | Monday, December 8, 2014
On October 31, 2014, the government of Japan, through its subservient monetary arm, the Bank of Japan, made yet another desperate move.
Misrule of the few or how oligarchs ruined Greece
By: EBR | Monday, December 8, 2014
Just a few years ago, Greece came close to defaulting on its debts and exiting the eurozone. Today, the country’s economy is showing new signs of life.
No easy answers to Israel’s painful dilemma
By: EBR | Monday, September 29, 2014
In situations as complex as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which often seem insoluble, one sometimes envies the ancient Greeks, who invented deus ex machina — that artificial device that solved the entanglement of the dramatic plot.
Experts say crisis demands closer monitoring of European gas supplies via Ukraine
By: EBR | Thursday, September 18, 2014
The EU is suffering from high energy prices and a lot of competitiveness due to the US shale revolution. The EU will no doubt produce some shale gas over time. However, on its doorstep the EU has the world’s largest gas resources on the territory of the Russian Federation
A European lost decade?
By: EBR | Thursday, August 28, 2014
Europe's economic woes resemble Japan’s situation in the 1990s, which led to a 'lost decade' of economic stagnation and deflation from which the country is still working to recover. Michael Heise asks whether Europe will suffer a similar fate.
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