Tag Archives: Euro area

German eurosceptics strong enough to nudge Merkel

by Olaf Storbeck on 04/05/2013

A new anti-euro party is unlikely to make it into parliament in the 2013 …

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Tagged as Alternative für Deutschland, Angela Merkel, Bernd Lucke, Euro area, Euro crisis, euro scepticism, German Elections, Germany

Gold move shows Buba can cave in to pressure

by Olaf Storbeck on 01/18/2013

Germany’s central bank will repatriate some of its gold reserves. That could mean that …

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Tagged as Deutsche Bundesbank, ECB, Euro area, Euro crisis, gold reserves, OMT

Germans have peculiar love-hate affair with Merkel

by Olaf Storbeck on 01/04/2013

(This article has also been published as a Reuters Breakingviews comment on 2 January 2013.)
The chancellor …

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Tagged as Angela Merkel, Euro area, Euro crisis, German Elections, Germany, public opinion

EBA stress test: Individual PIIGS exposure for all 90 banks

by Olaf Storbeck on 07/18/2011

When the European Banking Authority (EBA) published their stress test results last Friday, they …

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Tagged as banking sector, default, EBA, EU, Euro, Euro area, European Banking Authority, exposure, financial crisis, Greece, haircut, Ireland, Italy, List of banks in Greece, PIGS, PIIGS, Portugal, sovereign debt, sovereign debt ciris, Spain, stress tests

The stealth bailout that doesn’t exist: debunking Hans-Werner Sinn

by Olaf Storbeck on 06/06/2011

Hans-Werner Sinn, the CEO of CESifo, claims that the ECB is conducting a secret …

Filed under Economic Policy, General Economics, Monetary Policy, Target 2

Tagged as Anglo Irish Bank, bailout, central bank money, current account deficit, Deutsche Bundesbank, Euro area, Euro crisis, European Central Bank, Eurozone, Felix Salmon, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Greece, Hans-Werner Sinn, imbalances, Ireland, Martin Wolf, monetary policy, money creation, open market operations, Target2, Target2 balance