"Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance……" — Barry Eichengreen
"Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow."
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While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be…
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Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has…
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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely…
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Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure…
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up…
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the…
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