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P. Stephens (Financial Times): Europe says goodbye to solidarity

prin pe 25 februarie 2012 în Economie europeana


Some words are the property of continental Europeans. You do not hear many Brits or Americans talking about “solidarity”. The expression belongs to the soggy (to Anglo-Saxon minds) consensualism of social market capitalism and to prophets of European unity. What’s happened lately is that solidarity has dissolved. This explains why the euro, and the European […]

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Financial Times: Dual debt crises: The abyss that awaits

prin pe 16 iulie 2011 în Economie europeana, Economie globala


A week ago last Thursday, global equity markets were sitting pretty, secure in the expectation of good US employment figures and some breathing space in the European sovereign debt saga. Now, that confidence has disappeared. In its place, investors see contagion gripping the eurozone, renewed weakness in the American economy and the looming possibility that […]

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