3+1 issues to haunt tomorrow’s EU Summit
Tomorrow’s European Council Summit has a very loaded agenda, with first item on it the pending agreement over EU’s proper budgets for the next seven years. Apart from this there are another two crucial...
View ArticleECB describes in detail how it exploits the poor
The European Central Bank during the last two years made profits of €2.11 billion, by exploiting the misery of the five Eurozone countries in financial distress. Of that money, €1.2bn came only from...
View ArticleEU Commission challenges Berlin by proposing breakthrough legislation on banks
In an inspired speech last Friday, in Helsinki the European Commissioner Michel Barnier, speaking at the 4th Annual Economic Forum, made crystal clear that the Commission has not abandoned the target...
View ArticleDraghi cuts the Gordian knot of the Banking Union
Mario Draghi, the President of the European Central Bank, had three messages to send yesterday to Eurozone’s political leaders. He did that while answering journalists’ questions, after the regular...
View ArticleThe fatal consequences of troika’s blind austerity policy
When the ‘troika’, made up by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund was atypically formed first in spring of 2010 to bail out and audit Greece, its...
View ArticleParliament: Last compromise on bank single resolution mechanism
Undeniably, the European Banking Union’s prime target is to definitely cut the umbilical cord between banks and sovereigns, through the creation of a uniform supervision and insolvency dealing...
View ArticleEuropean Banking Union: no one is perfect
Europe came to an agreement last Thursday 20 March to complete the second pillar of the European Banking Union with the establishment of the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM). After months and months...
View ArticleEuropean banking stress tests 2014: A more adverse approach for a shorter...
The aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007-2008 is mainly related to the banking sector. The capital adequacy of the European banks is an important aspect that European Regulation Bodies have to be...
View ArticleQuantitative easing: how Mario can tackle low inflation in Eurozone
One of the major issues that the European Central Bank (ECB) struggles to solve is low inflation. It seems that it is not even close to the target that has been set; a rate of below but close to 2%...
View ArticleFive-year low inflation for Eurozone and now Mario has to finally wake up the...
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) governing council is gathering today in Naples to discuss the monetary policy just two days after the publication of the flash estimate of the annual inflation of the...
View Article“C’est la vie”? French recession and unemployment to linger in Eurozone
It was last Wednesday when the financial information services company Markit published the Markit Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for the month of November. This indicator revealed a...
View ArticleD-Day for Grexit is today and not Friday; Super Mario is likely to kill the...
Today is really the D-Day for the Greek matter. After a couple of moves in this grand chessboard, checkmate is just unavoidable. Today we are likely to reach a point without return where nobody will be...
View ArticleIs the ECB enforcing the will of the big Eurozone member states on the small?...
Reviewing the political or economic events in retrospect always gives the observer a privileged position. This is the point where Benoît Cœuré – a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central...
View ArticleYanis Varoufakis in a Sting Exclusive: “Unsustainable debt turns the creditor...
The Lethal Deferral of Greek Debt Restructuring Written by Yanis Varoufakis ATHENS – The point of restructuring debt is to reduce the volume of new loans needed to salvage an insolvent entity....
View ArticleWhy the ECB prepares to flood the markets with more and free of charge euro;...
Mario Draghi’s statement of last Thursday from Malta that the European Central Bank’s “monetary policy accommodation will need to be re-examined at our December monetary policy meeting”, offered a...
View ArticleDraghi rehabs ECB into a tool to support growth and employment; a departure...
On Thursday 22 October Mario Draghi, the President of the European Central Bank delighted the world capital markets with his comment about the “factors that are currently slowing the return of...
View ArticleDraghi tells the Parliament the ECB to use all its weaponry; euro slides to...
Undoubtedly, Mario Draghi’s speeches and comments are being carefully monitored, analyzed and discounted by government decision makers, capital market experts and of course the Press. Invariably, this...
View ArticleCapital markets selloff: The financial moguls send messages to monetary...
The wild selloff in the major capital markets of the world that culminated last Monday, the first working day of the New Year and continued on Wednesday for a fifth day in row was not just an...
View ArticleEU to pay a dear price if the next crisis catches Eurozone stagnant and...
Amidst the historically worst first week of a year since stock exchange records exist, the Eurozone economy remains stagnant and appears clearly unable to offer itself and the rest of the global...
View ArticleWEF Davos 2016 LIVE: Banking moguls continue brandishing financial Armageddon...
On Thursday 7n January this newspaper commented that behind the capital markets selloff, which shook the financial world in the first week of this year, were the financial moguls who want to impose...
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