Wolf Richter www.wolfstreet.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Commerzbank, Germany’s second-largest bank, a toppling marvel of ingenuity during the Financial Crisis that was bailed out by ever dutiful if unenthusiastic taxpayers, will now reward these very folks with what Germans have come to look …
Finland’s economy is heading for a ’perfect storm’
Paul Jonker-Hoffrén is a post-doctoral researcher in Sociology at the University of Turku (Finland) Finland has traditionally been regarded as one of the better performing economies in the Eurozone, however the country has struggled with low growth figures over the …
A European Commission approach to Innovation
Robert-Jan Smits, British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium Europe is strong on innovation, more than many of us sometimes realise. We have the largest internal market in the world. We are home to many of the world’s leading innovative companies. …
Central bank governors in EU & political affiliations
Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik is a visiting researcher at Leiden University. He can be contacted at: l.ennser-jedenastik@fsw.leidenuniv.nl Over recent decades it has become the norm for central banks to be made formally independent from governments and political actors. Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik writes that despite this insulation …
The key focus for the EU should be on producing results
The results of the European Parliament elections have prompted a number of European politicians to call for a reform process aimed at enhancing democracy and solving existing issues within the EU’s institutional framework. Renaud Thillaye writes that while ‘reform’ may be the …
Can An Economy Be Too Good?
How when you’re in a group, doing extremely well can be a problem. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y46Sw1BUHPs[/embedyt] When we talk about European economy, we usually focus on the screw ups – the sunny South, with the big deficits. But the strangest report recently …