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Time to expose the reality of ‘debt market discipline’

As another sovereign-debt crisis looms, Adam Tooze warns against repeating the same mistakes made during the last crisis

By Adam Tooze

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One giant leap for Europe...

...but one small step for Italy? While some celebrate the 'Mercron' reovery fund as a milestone, Rome's reaction is cautious

By Michael Braun

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Brexit: deaths, more deaths … and no-deal calculations

In a nightmare-scenario ‘Brexit’, the UK government provokes no-deal chaos hoping to profit after its Covid-19 shambles

By Paul Mason

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The ‘frugal four’ should save the European project

Peter Bofinger argues that additional loans do not add up to a rescue package which can save Europe from the corona crisis

By Peter Bofinger

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Germany has a lot on its plate during the EU Council presidency

The German EU presidency will have to deal with the corona crisis, strengthen the EU budget and listen carefully to citizens

By Linn Selle

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Europe's emotional desert

Brexit and the EU's response to Italy's corona crisis expose the lack of proximity between citizens and the EU

By Laura Parker

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If not end European austerity now, when?

A European recovery must break with the austerity dogma. The alternative is to slip back into small-state mentality

By Joachim Schuster

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How Fidesz and PiS exploit the culture war

They are pushing polarising agendas and devastating socio-economic policies. EU elites only seem to care about the former

By Eszter Kováts, Elena Zacharenko

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Corona in 5G

A lesson to be learnt from the current crisis is that Europe needs to avoid being dependent in sensitive areas of production

By Jens Zimmermann

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Turn the EU into a real community of solidarity

Coronabonds and the ESM alone aren't adequate responses to Covid-19. The EU needs to become a community of solidarity

By Martin Schulz