On another forum someone pointed out that it must be at lest 2,500 years since Iran (a.k.a. Persia) and Greece dominated the headlines to th...

It takes a great deal more knowledge about various aspects of the problem than most commentators have shown to write sensibly about the high...

Despite the marked reluctance shown earlier to bail out Cyprus and its banking sector to the tune of €17.5 billion, it would appear that , ...

Couple of articles in Der Spiegel that might be of interest or amuse readers of this blog. Spiegel Staff write collectively on the problem ...

Come February 10 there will be another country whose bail-out will  be discussed: Cyprus. There will be certain problems with the whole disc...

The Karlsruhe Court has refused to block the ESM treaty and, as the Washington Post reports , inevitably the markets "breathed a sigh ...

The crisis goes on and the government has either resigned or about to resign. The Guardian 's constant update is quite useful but, by d...

... the government is in trouble . The liberal and conservative Dutch government cabinet holds an emergency meeting on Monday after talks ...

As readers of this blog know I have very little time for Open Europe's endless call for that elusive reform of the EU. However, when the...

Jan Fleischhauer notes in Der Spiegel and interesting, unexpected and not entirely happy as far as the Germans are concerned political deve...

That is all I can say about the recent upsurge of Germanophobia as part of the Greek crisis. The Greeks are spending all the time they can s...

Who can tell? When Lord Barnett asked HMG on Tuesday whether HM Treasury is developing contingency plans for use in the event of a Eurozo...

Here is a conundrum: if everybody's credit ratings are cut then what do credit ratings signify? Well, we shall soon find out. France, as...

... things are dragging on in Greece towards the inevitable but much-postponed catastrophe. According to the BBC Talks between Greece and ...

According to Sky News Standard & Poor's is about to downgrade France's credit rating, sources including the French news agency...

This does not come as a surprise to anyone but here are some interesting graphs about the Spanish economy, published by The Atlantic . To ...

Thanks to a reader from Scandinavia and to The English Blog  but, of course, in the first place, thanks to Patrick Blower of the Daily Te...

Here is an interesting quote from a long article that analyzes the problems of the eurozone and insists that it was founded on a lie and tha...

City AM reports with some shock in its tone that MOST countries will not get a vote on tighter fiscal integration, allowing Germany to for...

I missed the fact that no less a person than Gavyn Davies said in the Financial Times It has suddenly become respectable to ask the questi...