TOPICS: ‘Eurozone’

Avoiding a Shrinking EU in an Expanding Planet: A Turkish Contribution to the Debate on Europe’s FutureFebruary 28, 2013 / Bahadır Kaleağası This policy brief offers suggestions for how Europe can regain it's pre-Great Recession status as a world leader.
Read more...A Deeper and Wider AtlanticFebruary 06, 2013 / Emiliano Alessandri, Riccardo AlcaroWhile there is no strategic imperative to think ‘pan-Atlantic’, there is very much a functional advantage in doing so. As argued by Ian Lesser, functional interaction is a fully acceptable – and indeed a desirable – driver for wider Atlantic cooperation.Trade and investment imbalances, energy and environmental issues, counterterrorism, antipiracy, maritime security, all these are challenges of transnational, even ‘transregional’ concern. Countries along the Atlantic rim can only benefit from greater coordination on these matters.
Read more...Can the EU Bicycle Turn into a Jet Plane by 2020?September 25, 2012 / Vivien A. SchmidtThis policy brief proposes two scenarios for the EU, based on the assumption that the eurozone will move towards closer economic and political integration.
Read more...Europe Must Drop its Crisis RoutineSeptember 12, 2012 / Peter SpardingThe Christian Science MonitorAs the eurocrisis continues, Europe must avoid its precarious crisis routine and forge a sustainable plan.
Read more...Transatlantic Trends 2012 Live Webcast in TurkeySeptember 11, 2012 / Peter SpardingJoin GMF’s Turkey office and the Center for International and European Studies as they stream ‘Transatlantic Trends and the role of Turkey’ live from 12:30 CET on September 12.
Read more...June 14, 2012Read more...Spanish bailout, Greek elections make June a make-or-break month in debt crisisJune 12, 2012 / Thomas Kleine-BrockhoffChristian Science MonitorOne day, when historians look back to June 2012, they will likely find it was a make-or-break month for Europe. The debt crisis, now in its third year, has produced a moment of extraordinary clarity for the 17 countries joined by the euro: Either move toward real fiscal union or break apart.
Read more...May 23, 2012 / Bruce StokesRead more...May 21, 2012 / Bruce StokesRead more...Reports of Our DeathMay 04, 2012 / Bruce StokesEuropeans have begun to believe that our economic problems are worse than theirs. They’re wrong.
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