Five Bullets
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October, 22 2018
C. Bastasin: Five Bullets on the EU Commission's Hard-Nosed Letter to Italy
In a strongly worded letter, EU Commissioners Valdis Dombrovskis and Pierre Moscovici have accused Italy of planning an “obvious and significant deviation” from EU rules with its draft budget for 2019. The budget raises “serious concerns” and is “...
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October, 1 2018
C. Bastasin: Five Bullets on why Italy's is not a Populist Government
Italy’s government is not just another populist government, more or less similar to the Greek, the British or even the Hungarian governments. It is different because it is not one plain populist government like the others. In fact, it is made of two...
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March, 13 2017
C. Bastasin: Five Bullets Regarding the Letter of the Eight Finance Ministers
European ministers of finance discussed the future of the EMU on several occasions over the last couple of months. Under the impulse of the German and French leaders, the heads of governments resolved to decide on the future of the EMU in the coming...
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October, 4 2016
M. Messori: Five Bullets on the Lessons Learned from Deutsche Bank
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September, 29 2016
C. Bastasin: Five Bullets on Italy’s Isolation in Europe
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September, 21 2016
M. Messori: Five Bullets on Europe, Post-Bratislava
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September, 19 2016
S. Micossi: Five Bullets on the Italian Criticism of the Bratislava Summit
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March, 9 2016
C. Bastasin: Five Bullets on Merkel's Role in the Refugee Crisis
• Merkel's management of the Euro crisis actually hinged on the architecture of non-political institutions, with financial markets acting as an enforcer of fiscal discipline and the German Constitutional Court defining terms that Berlin exploited when...
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February, 18 2016
C. Bastasin: Five Bullets on the Bail-In and Italy’s Public Debt
The conflict between Rome and Brussels over the regulation of banks’ bail-in and public budget flexibility is a consequence of Italy’s denial of the European partners’ concerns over the wobbly mountain of Italian public debt.