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Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB, on the real causes of the crisis
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The Vice-President of the European Central Bank, the Portuguese Vítor Constâncio, recently gave a remarkable speech during a conference by the Bank of Greece. I say “remarkable” because he denounces the austerian argumen...
Why I Don’t Need to Write: Europe is becoming less shit-headed
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I need to write. It’s a visceral thing. I feel sick if I don’t. My mind feels cluttered with unexpressed thoughts, growing stale and even rotten; the longer you wait the less satisfying they are when you finally put them to paper, having...
(Français) Réponse à Quatremer : Le machin maastrichtien a été fait pour rester sur pilote automatique
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Comment on From Nations to Provinces: The Demographic Collapse of Southern and Eastern Europe by Brussels blog round-up for 11 – 17 May: France in recession again, ‘Schwabylon’, and how to become a British Eurosceptic. | EUROPP
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[...] Willy has an in-depth look at how the Euro crisis has accelerated the continent’s demographic decline. Real Time Brussels [...]...
Comment on From Nations to Provinces: The Demographic Collapse of Southern and Eastern Europe by craigjameswilly
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Hey Bogdan, Interesting comments. Depopulation may be good environmentally but I think it is problematic economically, at least in the immediate, because it reduces growth (and hence makes debt-to-GDP harder to manage) and because of the old-age d...
Comment on From Nations to Provinces: The Demographic Collapse of Southern and Eastern Europe by Bogdan
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Interesting article, but I'm not sure I fully agree with the conclusions. For one thing I'm not entirely sure that depopulation equals economic disaster (in the end Europe is very densely populated at the moment and new technologies might make a larg...
Comment on From Nations to Provinces: The Demographic Collapse of Southern and Eastern Europe by @hughbs
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From Nations to Provinces: The Demographic Collapse of Southern and Eastern Europe < Share @CraigJWilly's concerns http://t.co/9QMlkTj3UW...
Comment on From Nations to Provinces: The Demographic Collapse of Southern and Eastern Europe by Seventeen Key Theses for the global fiscal-monetary mix - SNBCHF.COM
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[...] rates with the euro introduction. At the latest when rates start to rise again, prices will fall. Falling population and housing oversupply may help to anticipate this tendency. A balance sheet recession might loom, [...]...
Comment on From Nations to Provinces: The Demographic Collapse of Southern and Eastern Europe by @joriszwart
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The decline and fall of southern Europe. Very scary, could all too easily become true. http://t.co/b6cPH7arxQ...
Comment on (Français) La Mélancolie française d’Éric Zemmour (critique) by craigjameswilly
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Personnellement, je trouve que Zemmour ne démontre en rien une "vocation romaine" particulière à la France. Mis à part le constat que, effectivement, la France est un pays latin... Mais la Russie, l'Allemagne (Premier Reic...
Comment on (Français) La Mélancolie française d’Éric Zemmour (critique) by amusant
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Amusant. Je vous conseille de relire l'ouvrage en question. Sa thèse est pourtant simple et intelligible, sans que l'on soit obligé d'être d'accord avec l'auteur en tout point. Au delà de cela, Zemmour parle de l'h&eac...
Comment on From Nations to Provinces: The Demographic Collapse of Southern and Eastern Europe by bloggingportal_2 (@Bloggingportal2)
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Craig Willy: From Nations to Provinces: The Demographic Collapse of Southern and Eastern Europe http://t.co/cTKAW8qzXH...
From Nations to Provinces: The Demographic Collapse of Southern and Eastern Europe
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My early political thought was in large part opposed to the “myth” of the demographic collapse of Europe, particularly as promoted by American neoconservative and other Anglo-chauvinists, supposedly caused by spirit-killing effects of &ld...
Comment on The humor of The Economist: Three jokes the author nestled in the hit-job on France by @fwred
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On France's 'declin', this old response to The Economist attack makes a good re-read http://t.co/EMqUSdsKH9...
Comment on After Austerity: How much poorer will Europe be? by @jinaver
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Nekdo, ki razume, kako nepomembne so lokalne politike. http://t.co/67bASA9DRd...
Comment on Baltic “Austerity Successes”: Or, how to easily reduce unemployment by exiling 10% of your population by craigjameswilly
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Where have you written this? I'd be interested in reading.
Comment on Baltic “Austerity Successes”: Or, how to easily reduce unemployment by exiling 10% of your population by Jeffrey Sommers
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Agree with your post and have been writing to this effect for a few years. Yet, while the emigration numbers are terrible, live births have not been completely insignificant. They have been very low since independence in Latvia and dipped further...
Comment on Why Politics Disappoints: Is democracy still possible in a narcissistic and individualist society? by Brussels blog round-up for 27 April – 3 May: A dreary May Day, the ECB cuts rates, and could Spain become the Florida of Europe? | EUROPP
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[...] Willy looks at whether or not democracy is still possible in our individualistic society, saying that “much of [...]...
(Français) La Mélancolie française d’Éric Zemmour (critique)
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The Front National: A Rough Guide
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This is a guide to the French far-right nationalist party the Front National, based on numerous interviews, articles and polls. It also covers broader issues of French attitudes towards their democracy, immigration and Muslims. It is composed of the...
