EU – Dr Oliver Hartwich

270,000 jobs in a better kind of Grexit

European monetary policy has previously smashed the fragile plates of the Greek economy to the floor; 12 years on, they've finally pieced it all back together [...]

Europe’s path to Mexico’s debt crisis

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The moderate increases in the European Central Bank’s interest rates are far from being brutal but the writing is on the wall that Europe’s monetary party is about to end, and Southern Europe has remarkable parallels to Mexico and Latin America in the 1980s. [...]

Big rouble in little Europe

Europe will face difficult monetary conditions for years to come. If the bank is unlucky, inflation expectations will solidify, and rapid price increases will become a permanent feature for the Eurozone. [...]

Central planning through the backdoor

If you thought central planning was buried with the fall of communism, you should look at the European Union. [...]

Taxonomic vandalism, EU-style

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When the EU embarked on developing its own taxonomy, maybe it should have consulted with a few biologists. That may have prevented it from creating a monster. [...]

Cynically exploiting EU’s divisions

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After simmering for many months, the Belarusian-organised refugee crisis is heating up in the Eastern European cold. [...]

The next Euro crisis has just begun

Just as Europe’s economies are emerging from the Covid-19 recession, the next big European crisis is already visible on the horizon. It is just not clear what kind of crisis it will be: another debt crisis, an inflation crisis, or a combination of both. [...]