Euro Debate Roundup

EurActiv is an extremely useful source of information and analysis (much better eg that EU Observer or Eupolitix, for example). Today they have an interesting survey of the recent debate about the efficacy of the euro. They also have a link to a recent report which seems interesting.

The rejection of the Constitution by two of the EU’s founding members – France and the Netherlands – has raised concerns about the long-term future of European Monetary Union. But other comments have also led to some extra market volatility for the single currency. Arguably, French and Dutch voters did, in 48 hours, what the European Central Bank has been trying to do for six months – namely reduce the value of the euro.”

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About Edward Hugh

Edward 'the bonobo is a Catalan economist of British extraction. After being born, brought-up and educated in the United Kingdom, Edward subsequently settled in Barcelona where he has now lived for over 15 years. As a consequence Edward considers himself to be "Catalan by adoption". He has also to some extent been "adopted by Catalonia", since throughout the current economic crisis he has been a constant voice on TV, radio and in the press arguing in favor of the need for some kind of internal devaluation if Spain wants to stay inside the Euro. By inclination he is a macro economist, but his obsession with trying to understand the economic impact of demographic changes has often taken him far from home, off and away from the more tranquil and placid pastures of the dismal science, into the bracken and thicket of demography, anthropology, biology, sociology and systems theory. All of which has lead him to ask himself whether Thomas Wolfe was not in fact right when he asserted that the fact of the matter is "you can never go home again".