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Columnist @Breakingviews. Author of ‘San Quentin Jazz Band’, ‘Romance in the Dark’. Migrated to bsky.app/profile/pierrebri.bsky.social
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What the Yellow Vest Protests Mean for the Future of France's Economy

What the Yellow Vest Protests Mean for the Future of France's Economy

Barron's — Can Emmanuel Macron self-reform? The French president apologized to the public this week for underestimating the severity of their "malaise," and for a series of gaffes that have made him look over the months like an aloof and condescending president...
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How Europe is losing the fight against money-laundering

How Europe is losing the fight against money-laundering

Financial News — In mid-October, Kremlin critic and campaigner Bill Browder filed complaints against Nordea in four different countries, alleging....
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Germany sinks Macron's euro dream

Germany sinks Macron's euro dream

Financial News — Despite the French president's best efforts, the euro is still best defined as the result of what France can't do and Germany won't do
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Europe warily eyes US-China spat at G20

Europe warily eyes US-China spat at G20

Financial News — Eighteen leaders of the world's largest economies will gather in Argentina this week to watch two heavyweights duke it out in a diplomatic ring...
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The City's Brexit problem is not those leaving, it's those who won't come

The City's Brexit problem is not those leaving, it's those who won't come

Financial News — Even in the hardest of all possible Brexit scenarios, rumours of the death of the City of London are exaggerated. But the real pain....
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European central banking: No women, no trust

European central banking: No women, no trust

Financial News — Sharon Donnery, the deputy governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, did not mince words in a speech she gave last May at a conference in Malta...
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An audience with Pierre Moscovici: 'The eurozone has a massive democratic deficit'

An audience with Pierre Moscovici: 'The eurozone has a massive democratic deficit'

Financial News — Europe's top fiscal enforcer worries about the eurozone's resilience - or lack thereof
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Brexit agreement prolongs uncertainty for the City

Brexit agreement prolongs uncertainty for the City

Financial News — Any short-term relief that a cliff-edge divorce can be avoided due will be outweighed by the fact the UK faces years of further talks
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How Italy's stimulus would slow the economy down

How Italy's stimulus would slow the economy down

Financial News — As often, the latest dispute between Italy and European institutions is about rules, deficits, debts and possible sanctions. But those are just products of the real problem...
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An audience with Christian Noyer: The Frenchman out to steal the City

An audience with Christian Noyer: The Frenchman out to steal the City

Financial News — The former French central bank governor's pitch for Paris as a post-Brexit destination is far from a hard sell
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Investors Beware: Angela Merkel Is a Lame Duck in Germany

Investors Beware: Angela Merkel Is a Lame Duck in Germany

Barron's — Angela Merkel may well limp along as chancellor for the remaining three years of her mandate. But neither investors nor Germany's European partners should take lightly the fact that she will be leaving the chairmanship of the party she has led for 13 years.
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How the ECB could help Italy - and why it won't

How the ECB could help Italy - and why it won't

Financial News — Mario Draghi is Italian. Italians should help their country. Mario Draghi is president of the European Central Bank. So the ECB should help Italy. That is the reasoning....
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Why the ECB Wants More Power to Screen Europe's Top Bankers

Why the ECB Wants More Power to Screen Europe's Top Bankers

Barron's — The eurozone's banking supervisor is on a mission to get more powers to ensure the upper echelons of banks are up to the job of running big financial institutions in the modern age.
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Italy's 'Brexiteers' Are Playing the Long Game

Italy's 'Brexiteers' Are Playing the Long Game

Barron's — Because of its defiant attitude and refusal to play by the European Union's fiscal rules, the current Italian government often draws comparison to 2015 Greece,...
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This Italian Debt Blow-Up May Be Different From All the Others

This Italian Debt Blow-Up May Be Different From All the Others

Barron's — Italy has regularly been able to navigate through disputes over its budget with the European Commission. This time might not go as well.
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German economic adviser: 'Italy is another argument for reforming now'

German economic adviser: 'Italy is another argument for reforming now'

POLITICO Europe — Isabel Schnabel is a professor of financial economics at Bonn University and a member of the five-strong German Council of Economic Experts, an academic body tasked with advising policymakers on matters of economic policy.
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Former Macron adviser: 'A little recession could trigger a serious flare-up'

Former Macron adviser: 'A little recession could trigger a serious flare-up'

POLITICO Europe — PARIS - Philippe Martin heads France's Conseil d'Analyse Economique (Council of Economic Analysis), a body of economists tasked with advising the government on policy matters. He was an adviser to Emmanuel Macron...
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City of London is already dying

City of London is already dying

POLITICO Europe — The UK's frayed welcome mat for immigrants and the financial industry is a bigger threat than a bad Brexit deal.
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In praise of mercenary central bankers

In praise of mercenary central bankers

POLITICO Europe — PARIS - Eurozone leaders could learn a thing or two from Philip Hammond. Notably, they should heed the example he's showing them on how to choose a central banker. ...
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Barnier can't succeed Juncker if French don't agree

Barnier can't succeed Juncker if French don't agree

POLITICO Europe — PARIS - As the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier might seem as well positioned as anyone to become the first French president of the European Commission since Jacques Delors...
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Macron's eurozone reforms meet German 'duvet diplomacy'

Macron's eurozone reforms meet German 'duvet diplomacy'

POLITICO Europe — PARIS - For Emmanuel Macron, who is traveling to Berlin on Thursday, this could be a good moment to check the airbags. The French president is meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel....
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Clouds gather over global economy, casting long shadow on Europe

Clouds gather over global economy, casting long shadow on Europe

POLITICO Europe — PARIS - Rarely has the global economy seen a starker contrast, between a present looking so bright and a future so gloomy....
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Emmanuel Macron's lost European innocence

Emmanuel Macron's lost European innocence

POLITICO Europe — PARIS - Emmanuel Macron knows by now that it was easier to become French president at 39 than to reform Europe...
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What Trump gets right about Europe's trade problem

What Trump gets right about Europe's trade problem

POLITICO Europe — The US president is forcing Europeans to face the eurozone's deep structural flaws.
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