Waltraud Schelkle is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. She is particularly interested in the political economy of European monetary integration and the role of financial markets for social policy. One …
Lithuania changes the ECB’s voting system
Lithuania will become the 19th member of the Euro area on the 1st of January, following Wednesday’s Council endorsement. The most important part of the story – however – is not that someone is still brave enough to join 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 …