The European Central Bank (ECB) published its Convergence Report(2012), in which it evaluates the progress of the members states that have committed themselves to joining the euro by following the convergence criteria, better known as the “Maastricht”...
June 12, 2012 12:17 pm / 1 comment
Two years ago, here in Wrocław [at Wrocław Global Forum], you called United States and Europe “G2 of the world” and today you referred to them as “catamaran on stormy waters”, so I was wondering if you think that we can observe serious,...
June 11, 2012 11:43 am / no comments
In response to the on-going financial crisis in the euro zone, LFMI, a leading economic policy think-tank in Lithuania, has worked out and submitted to responsible institutions a plan which would help countries exiting the euro zone to build...
June 1, 2012 8:05 am / 3 comments
About the Greeks beating German-looking pensioners and Greek members of parliament playing black metal, while Merkel is happy to gamble with their lives. About fiscal pact, which is good in one country and bad in another one, about reducing...
May 23, 2012 10:37 am / no comments
As finance ministers sat together at the Ecofin meeting last week, the future of the Eurozone was at stake, with Greek political deadlock casting a shadow of darkness over its own euro existence.
Greek President Karolos Papoulias was going to...
May 22, 2012 10:50 am / no comments
The aging Estonia and Europe need to accept that the state has to earn and save before it can spend and must remain within its limits both financially and functionally, writes Jürgen Ligi, the Minister of Finance.
Right now, large English language...
May 10, 2012 12:48 pm / 5 comments
On March 2, EU-25 leaders signed the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union, commonly called the Fiscal Compact. The Treaty was not signed by the Czech Republic and Great Britain. Lithuania joined...
April 17, 2012 11:39 am / 1 comment
Lithuanian Free Market Institute
and
Friedrich Naumann Foundation
invite to
International conference
“The Eurozone in Crisis: Solutions and Future Prospects”
WHEN
Date: 03-04-2012 09:00
WHERE
Place:...
March 23, 2012 2:40 pm / no comments
This week about Big Berta, Stiglitz’ duel with bad speculators, why Greece needs planning commissioners and about open hunting season for bad news messengers in the European Parliament.
The second round of three-year tender loans of the European...
March 20, 2012 1:21 pm / 1 comment
Slovak think tank INESS, the Institute of Economic and Social Studies, calculated the total potential risk exposure related to Eurozone rescue mechanisms on per capita basis. It is published on the institute’s new project website eurokriza.sk...
March 9, 2012 1:46 pm / no comments