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EU: Dark Clouds on Eurozone Sky. August 3, 2015. In Wolfgang Schaeuble’s Germano-centric EU, no institution is more important apart from his Politburo-like Eurogroup and the Office of the Chancellor than his Ministry’s Council of Economic Advisers. The most influential adviser among them is Professor Hans-Werner Sinn from Munich, a Christian missionary-manqué turned tele-economist. Of trying to solve a complex situation has been lapped up by Wolfgang Schaeuble, like he did with another incredibly stupid ...
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Economics | Spotlight on Geopolitics
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EU: Dark Clouds on Eurozone Sky. August 3, 2015. In Wolfgang Schaeuble’s Germano-centric EU, no institution is more important apart from his Politburo-like Eurogroup and the Office of the Chancellor than his Ministry’s Council of Economic Advisers. The most influential adviser among them is Professor Hans-Werner Sinn from Munich, a Christian missionary-manqué turned tele-economist. Like any good German, Professor Sinn has but… » read more. Posted by Florian Pantazi. EU Priorities and Opinion. May 4, 2014.
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E.U. | Spotlight on Geopolitics
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Archives for E.U. The implosion of southern EU states’ political systems. March 14, 2016. The EU’s macroeconomic indicators for 2015 – the growth rate standing at 0.3 percent, the inflation rate at 0.2 percent – paint the picture of a continent severely affected by what economists call “secular stagnation“. Secular stagnation is afflicting not only the EU but also Japan, and in the years ahead it will most probably… » read more. Posted by Florian Pantazi. Postcard from Metsovo, Greece. August 21, 2015.
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Greece | Spotlight on Geopolitics
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Postcard from Metsovo, Greece. August 21, 2015. After three years of inhaling the diesel fumes of Paris, I have had the chance to spend a few weeks in Metsovo, in northern Greece. Known to the Greeks and the Bulgarians as Vlachs and to the rest of the Europeans as Aromanians, the Latin dialect-speaking community of Metsovo are a warm and welcoming lot… » read more. Posted by Florian Pantazi. EU: Dark Clouds on Eurozone Sky. August 3, 2015. Posted by Florian Pantazi. EU Priorities and Opinion. How much mo...
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NATO | Spotlight on Geopolitics
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NATO and the Baltics’ Geopolitical Predicament. May 6, 2016. During the 90’s, the uncontested dean of American diplomacy, the late George Kennan, fulminated against NATO’s expansion eastwards, which he considered both unnecessary and potentially dangerous for the security of the United States. The Clinton and Bush administrations did not heed sound professional advice and now the Baltics’ inclusion into NATO is creating major headaches… » read more. Posted by Florian Pantazi. How NATO is failing the EU.
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France | Spotlight on Geopolitics
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EU: Undoing Germany’s “Reluctant” Hegemony. July 30, 2015. To those in the know, the Italian peninsula was not only the cradle of the Roman Empire or Rome the centre of the Catholic faithful, but also the birthplace of capitalism and of countless statecraft innovations and institutions still widely used around the world today. During the middle ages, the Italian city-states thus discovered and… » read more. Posted by Florian Pantazi. EU Priorities and Opinion. EU: what are Latin countries waiting for?
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EU: Undoing Germany’s “Reluctant” Hegemony | Spotlight on Geopolitics
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EU: Undoing Germany’s “Reluctant” Hegemony. July 30, 2015. To those in the know, the Italian peninsula was not only the cradle of the Roman Empire or Rome the centre of the Catholic faithful, but also the birthplace of capitalism and of countless statecraft innovations and institutions still widely used around the world today. Of July 2015 – such hegemonic efforts which chiefly belong to Germany are played out. The existing political structures and institutions of the European Union. Institutions such as...
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SCO’s Landmark Ufa Summit | Spotlight on Geopolitics
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SCO’s Landmark Ufa Summit. July 11, 2015. Of July 2015, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has held a landmark summit in Ufa (Russia), its 15. To date. Ufa has simultaneously hosted the BRICS summit, which was meant to further strengthen economic ties between its five emerging economic powers. The State Department officials have reacted to the new developments in Asia by declaring that the United States do not consider Russia or China as existential threats to the Americans. Austerity fuels the ...
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EU: Grexit or Dexit ? | Spotlight on Geopolitics
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EU: Grexit or Dexit? July 19, 2015. Fast forward to the present. The European Union, built on the ruins left behind by World War II, is experiencing a similar if not identical predicament. The citizens within its 28 member-countries, are growing more and more disenchanted with the Union’s leadership by the day. Truth be told, the EU has become much too big, too culturally diverse and politically unresponsive to continue to be viable in its present form. Kenneth Griffin, Anil Kashyap, Guillermo Nielsen.
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Euro | Spotlight on Geopolitics
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Why the ‘Berlin consensus’ is toxic for the EU. August 31, 2015. Over the past fifteen years, quite a lot of criticism has been levelled by the MIT gang against what has become known as the Washington consensus. Very little or no public discussion, however, has taken place about its close European offshoot, the Berlin consensus. Sure, there are some differences between the neoliberal economic thinking underpinning… » read more. Posted by Florian Pantazi. EU Priorities and Opinion. August 3, 2015. Very fe...
