Insights

  • Ireland’s election and the EU
    Insight by Hugo Brady
    28 January 2011

    Ireland will elect a new government on February 25th to replace a discredited administration loathed by most Irish voters. At first sight, it seems unlikely the election will re-open the fundamentals of a bail-out agreed with fellow eurozone members and the IMF last November.

  • Can Greece be saved?
    Insight by Katinka Barysch
    20 January 2011

    Will Greece have to restructure its debt? Among most West European economists and investors, this now seems to be a foregone conclusion.

  • Euro crisis: In defence of investors
    Insight by Simon Tilford
    17 January 2011

    The eurozone’s fiscal position is better than the US and UK, and the crisis-hit members of the currency union are doing more to strengthen their public finances than either of these countries.

  • Reflections on Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa and the euro
    Insight by Charles Grant
    13 January 2011

    At the end of last year, Europe lost Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, an eminent central banker and economist, and one of the founding fathers of the euro.