Dan Hannan recently wrote an interesting piece with his predictions for the EU. He believes that the Euro-Corporatists of the “centre-right” are realising that they can’t make austerity stick in the face of popular unrest and the revolt at the ballot-box. So they will revert to type: more spending, more stimulus projects, more [...]
PLUS Markets, the AIM traded exchange for smaller companies, has announced that it has begun a “orderly closure” having failed to find a buyer. For months I have been warning the Treasury Select Committee that this would happen. The practical effect is that around 145 companies will try to find a new home and [...]
Across southern Europe, and especially in Greece and Spain, we’re hearing an inchoate cry of pain and rage from citizens whose lives have been shattered by austerity programmes. We’re seeing EU flags (and occasionally German flags) burned in the public squares.
These protesters offer no credible alternative programme. They merely seek the reinstatement of [...]
Guy Verhofstadt is a former Prime Minister of Belgium, and now leader of the Liberals in the European parliament. He is also the most splendidly unreconstructed €uro-zealot you could hope to meet.
With the European House crashing about his ears, his cry in the plenary on Wednesday was “More federalism! More political integration! €uro-bonds! [...]
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