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    Should the bail-outs be renegotiated?

    Grudgingly, Europeans (when offered the choice) have been accepting austerity. In May, Irish voters came out in support of the…
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    Should Greece vote to reject the bail-out?

    On Sunday, Greeks will go to the polls to vote for a new government, following an earlier vote in May that failed…
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    Was Spain’s bail-out a ‘victory for the euro’?

    Over the weekend, Eurozone finance ministers agreed on a bailout for Spain’s banks. Following on the heels of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, Spain will now…
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    Do SMEs need protecting from globalisation?

    The Irish economy, despite tentative signs of recovery, is still in a fragile state at the moment. Growth was a modest 0.7%…
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    Is it possible to have too much cyber security?

    We’ve already looked at several issues related to cyberspace on Debating Europe, including whether or not we need governments to protect…
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    Can Europe achieve growth without signing blank cheques?

    Last week, we asked if you thought the European social model was under threat, or whether the consensus for austerity (if it…
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    Will a “growth compact” go far enough?

    Please, please stop calling it a “Grexit“. The word (a portmanteau of “Greek” and “exit”) has been doing the rounds recently,…
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    Have the French and Greek elections broken the consensus for austerity?

    Yesterday, François Hollande was elected French President on an anti-austerity platform (making him only the second socialist president in the history…
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    Could we spend our way out of the crisis?

    This week the President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, called for a “growth compact” to complement the earlier “fiscal compact” (a non-EU treaty signed,…
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