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		<title>Assessing options for Greece</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After weeks of contradictory statements on the question how to handle Greece, the Heads of State and Government of the EU member states used their informal European Council meeting on February 11th &#160;for a strong political signal that aimed at calming markets and giving political support to the Greek Prime Minister&#8217;s budgetary consolidation efforts and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.euro-area.org/blog/?p=255</link>
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		<title>European plans for macroprudential supervisison: Will it work?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been asked to testify in front of the European Parliament&#39;s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on the planned financial supervisory structure in the European Union and I had my hearing in Brussels last week. Here is my statement: Dear Ms. Chairwoman Sharon Bowles, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me first thank you for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.euro-area.org/blog/?p=252</link>
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		<title>Greece: preventing market-driven sovereign default by strong conditionality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Greek case is moving markets &#8211; and minds. Over the last few weeks, for instance the German government including Angela Merkel has become a strong proponent of economic policy coordination in the Eurozone. Not only financial markets are nervous these days. Politicians and high officials in particular in the Eurozone are stressed, not only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.euro-area.org/blog/?p=248</link>
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		<title>Financial Market Supervision: Now comes the European Parliament’s hour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s decision by the Ecofin to water down the Commission&#8217;s proposal on the reform of the European Financial Market supervision to make it little more than a teethless tiger is deplorable. But the last word is not spoken &#8211; the European Parliament seems set to give the Ecofin a hard time. From the start, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.euro-area.org/blog/?p=238</link>
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		<title>German public finances: Accounting tricks in conflict with the SGP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to recent news reports, the new German coaliton government has found a nice trick which would allow them to cut taxes in the years from 2011 onwards without having to cut spending nor having to borrow more at that time. Sounds too good to be true? Right. It is not that Merkel and Westerwelle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.euro-area.org/blog/?p=236</link>
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		<title>An FDP impulse on Germany’s European policy under a likely centre-right coalition?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The probable junior partner in Germany&#8217;s new coalition, the liberal FDP, on Sunday reached a historically strong result with around 14.6 percent (estimate of&#160;11:54 p.m.)&#160;of the votes. For the first time in eleven years, it is set to join the federal government. Given its strong result, FDP chairman Guido Westerwelle will reach out for key [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.euro-area.org/blog/?p=230</link>
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		<title>EMU needs an external stability pact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our new contribution for Project Syndicate, we argue that the European Monetary Union needs a new stability pact which limits not government budgets, but imbalances in the current accounts of the member states. In such a pact, both deficit and surplus countries would be required to use their fiscal and general economic policies to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.euro-area.org/blog/?p=226</link>
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		<title>German Economic Policy after the Election: No help from Germany towards global economic rebalancing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a new publication for the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., I argue that no matter who is going to win the election in Germany in September, Germany will continue to be an obstacle to the reduction of global imbalances. The new constitutional rule on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.euro-area.org/blog/?p=224</link>
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		<title>The Economic Consequences of the Grand Coalition in Germany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Grand Coalition made sure that their legacy in Germany&#39;s economic policy stance will be far beyond the next election on September 27, 2008. After the Bundestag had already voted to amend the constitution and to include a sweeping ban on public borrowing a couple weeks ago, the Bundesrat (the part of parliament [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.euro-area.org/blog/?p=221</link>
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		<title>The SPE&#8217;s smart green growth and jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the SPE&#8217;s performance in the European elections, a recurrent question was why the Socialists/Social Democrats did not reach better scores: Why hasn&#8217;t the left been able to capitalise on the shift in public attitudes against conservative economic liberalism and right wing individualism in the current crisis? The SPE&#8217;s election manifesto does start with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.euro-area.org/blog/?p=218</link>
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