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How Financial Markets Discipline Politicians
Economy
How Financial Markets Discipline Politicians
Can financial markets put pressure on a powerful country like France, the world\'s eighth-largest economy? It is better not to test it. The UK has found that out several times. An analysis by Institut Montaigne found that promises made before the election by the leftist New Popular Front would increase France\'s annual budget spending by €95 billion and the state finance deficit by 3.6 percent of GDP.
Poles in the UK: Should They Stay or Should They Go?
Economy, Politics
Poles in the UK: Should They Stay or Should They Go?
A morning of June 24 was like no other. Some people were woken up in the early hours by a piercing sound of their mobile phones, when their friends wanted to reach them. Others anxiously climbed out of their beds. Most of them immediately switched on BBC news on their tellies only to find out that their worst fears came true – the majority of British citizens voted ‘leave’ in the EU referendum.
We Have the Nobel Prize! – Fiat Euro! 41/2012
Society
We Have the Nobel Prize! – Fiat Euro! 41/2012
We received the Nobel Peace Prize. The British want to have their own laws at home. Will we pay new taxes to fill in the Eurozone’s budget? ESM is officially working, we will see how much it will finally cost us. Red Cross is going to help Spain. Majority of us haven’t ever won any […]