Blogger The General Theorist wonders whether Christine Lagarde’s patchy performance as managing director of the IMF qualifies her for the trickier role of president of the European Central Bank. “The assumption that Lagarde is a like-for-like replacement of Mario Draghi is a huge misreading of her track-record.”
EU politics
Vila Web: Council of Europe says Spain must free Catalan political prisoners and withdraw extradition requests
Committee on Legal Affairs of human rights organization calls out Spanish authorities on independence issue. On the other hand the European Parliament withdrew the immunity of its three Catalan MEPs. Read here
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: German press and its politicians lose the plot – Europhiles be warned
You should note that the claim in Der Speigel “Germans would lose all the rescue money they have given to Italy” isutterly false. Italy was not part of any “rescue package”. Der Spiegel is the […]
Austerity
Sharun Mukand and Dani Rodrik: The divided public heart
Is politics driven by pragmatic self-interest or by identities and ideals? The self-harming voter offers a clue. This is a long read, but it is the weekend and it is time well invested. Read here
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