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Mr. Barroso should resign

May 10, 2012. Please keep in mind this date. It is the date in which stupidity and arrogance have touched their highest point in the European euro construction. Never had such a low point been touched...

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The Barroso-rule for Europe and the Deutsche Mark Necessity

…. so of course the agreements have to be respected, by everybody.  And if the agreements are not respected, it means that we are not in the condition to continue with a country that does not respect...

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Of Madison, Lincoln and a European Leader with no Name yet.

I apologize for not posting so often in English. I wish I could be able to do more! For those of you that have missed the last news from Planet Europe, well, lots is lost and little is lost. The …...

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The Movie: How Europe Won its Battle

Featuring: the bystanders and movie shooters: the European politicians the small buffalo: Greece and the likes the Buffalo herd: the Europeans the lions: your call, I have my opinion the alligator: a...

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Dr. Draghi’s bumblebee needs to grow with its own, small, wings

I welcomed Mario Draghi’s full commitment for a monetary policy meant to reduce spreads in the euro-area government bonds (“to the extent that the size of these sovereign premia hampers the functioning...

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Spiralling conflicts in Europe

There is increasingly growing concern of mutual distrust between Italian and Germans (should I say Germans and Italians?) leaking finally in the press since Italian Prime Minister Monti mentioned it....

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The State of the Less than Perfect Union

One should read with keen attention the word pronounced by Mr. Barroso, the European Commission (EC) President, yesterday for the (EU) State of the Union. They contain many interesting suggestions for...

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Rodrik’s trilemma is false. The euro trilemma is another one

That is where my political trilemma begins to bite: We cannot have globalization, democracy, and national sovereignty simultaneously. We must choose two among the three. If European leaders want to...

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Europe, a Unionized Empire? No thank you, an Imperial Union (and some irony)

Several years ago, the former President of the European Commission Barroso declared about the European Union: “We are a very special construction unique in the history of mankind. Sometimes I like to...

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A different euro Union is possible: why I choose NO

The paradox of this referendum is that it is not clear on what we are really voting. It remains, in the form – and form is substance, as Aristotle said, even more so in a continent where many...

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