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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Jack Straw, the former foreign secretary (you remember- Condoleezza Rice in a Blackburn Rovers shirt), grabbed the headlines at the IPPR after calling for the EU Parliament to be abolished. His speech was replete with personal agenda. It was classic … Continue reading
Global Instruments of Finance and the Folly of Economic Growth (Part 1)
Is the social usefulness of financial instruments misunderstood in a similar way to how, in the darkness, the aspiring animal musicians in the folktale Town Musicians of Bremen are mistaken for being a witch? Financial language is confusing at the … Continue reading
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Looking East: EU Foreign Policy Roundtable at LSE
The series of excellent roundtables arranged by the LSE’s European Foreign Policy Unit took a turn to the East last week, as a panel of experts assessed the impact of the EU in its Eastern European neighbourhood post Lisbon. No … Continue reading