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Blair | Central Europe Activ
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What is the EU (and Tony Blair) doing in the ‘peace process’? May 15, 2011. When Sen. Mitchell, the Middle East envoy of the Obama administration resigned on Friday, I immediately asked ‘what is Tony Blair doing’? In the time-frame of a single weekend, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has regained its importance in the Middle Eastern region. If the EU countries want it or not, they will have to play their… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. A Central European perspective. EU Priorities and Opinion.
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Brown to replace Strauss-Kahn in IMF top job? | Central Europe Activ
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Brown to replace Strauss-Kahn in IMF top job? May 15, 2011. While Ms Merkel cannot discuss urgent matters on the euro crisis with the IMF while Mr Strauss-Kahn is detained in the United States, Mr Brown has already popped up again as a substitute for Stauss-Kahn. For the top IMF job. Even if London is the biggest financial center of Europe, given the British disengagement with the EU it would look very odd if a top British politician would be nominated from this side of the Atlantic. It is also interesti...
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Quartet | Central Europe Activ
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What is the EU (and Tony Blair) doing in the ‘peace process’? May 15, 2011. When Sen. Mitchell, the Middle East envoy of the Obama administration resigned on Friday, I immediately asked ‘what is Tony Blair doing’? In the time-frame of a single weekend, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has regained its importance in the Middle Eastern region. If the EU countries want it or not, they will have to play their… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. A Central European perspective. EU Priorities and Opinion.
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IMF | Central Europe Activ
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Brown to replace Strauss-Kahn in IMF top job? May 15, 2011. While Ms Merkel cannot discuss urgent matters on the euro crisis with the IMF while Mr Strauss-Kahn is detained in the United States, Mr Brown has already popped up again as a substitute for Stauss-Kahn for the top IMF job. Even if London is the biggest financial center of Europe, given the British disengagement with… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. IMF: ‘Broad agreement with Hungary’ – with the EU and World Bank following. October 28, 2008.
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Hungary | Central Europe Activ
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This time it was not different – bailouts in 2008 and 2011. November 3, 2011. With Alex Katsiatis we have written a post two years ago about the dysfunctional Greek politics in the context of the Hungarian bailout of ’08, predicting that the Greek party will lead to a similar hangover. Very interesting in retrospect. The only reason why the money markets could not pick on Greece instead of Hungary… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. Elvis (Officially) Dead in Budapest. March 24, 2011. January 22, 2011.
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Economy & Euro | Central Europe Activ
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Archives for Economy and Euro. This time it was not different – bailouts in 2008 and 2011. November 3, 2011. With Alex Katsiatis we have written a post two years ago about the dysfunctional Greek politics in the context of the Hungarian bailout of ’08, predicting that the Greek party will lead to a similar hangover. Very interesting in retrospect. The only reason why the money markets could not pick on Greece instead of Hungary… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. May 6, 2010. Posted by Dániel Antal.
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Globalization | Central Europe Activ
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Brown to replace Strauss-Kahn in IMF top job? May 15, 2011. While Ms Merkel cannot discuss urgent matters on the euro crisis with the IMF while Mr Strauss-Kahn is detained in the United States, Mr Brown has already popped up again as a substitute for Stauss-Kahn for the top IMF job. Even if London is the biggest financial center of Europe, given the British disengagement with… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. What is the EU (and Tony Blair) doing in the ‘peace process’? Posted by Dániel Antal. Person...
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Greece | Central Europe Activ
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This time it was not different – bailouts in 2008 and 2011. November 3, 2011. With Alex Katsiatis we have written a post two years ago about the dysfunctional Greek politics in the context of the Hungarian bailout of ’08, predicting that the Greek party will lead to a similar hangover. Very interesting in retrospect. The only reason why the money markets could not pick on Greece instead of Hungary… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. Greece, a Divided House and a Need for Constitution. May 6, 2010.
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DSK should sort out his private life, not the euro crisis | Central Europe Activ
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DSK should sort out his private life, not the euro crisis. May 15, 2011. For a long time it was seen as a virtue that the French press was not grilling politician’s private lives. I think that the French public owes a lot to NYC gossip press and NYPD when it was saved from a non-substantial presidential campaign about the respective. Of Messieurs Strauss-Kahn and Sarkozy. In the meantime, the German Chancellor and other European leaders are waiting for an IMF leader they can talk about the. On Strauss-Ka...
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Lands Far Away...: August 2014
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Thoughts on Central and Eastern Europe from an historian of the region. Saturday, August 16, 2014. What is Putin up to? Churchill famously called Russia “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” That comment was prompted by the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in 1939. This week Vladimir Putin has lived up to that characterization; although, this time it is Russia’s actions towards Ukraine that has left heads people scratching heads. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Den Ukrainian Weekly Digest.
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