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Bi-annual Country risk survey monitoring political and economic stability of 186 countries

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March 2009

Inside investment: European policymaking — Mind the gaps

The current economic crisis exposes gaps at the heart of European policymaking. They will only widen as eurozone countries and the ECB grapple with the prospect of quantitative easing.




Groucho Marx once quipped that he would refuse to join a club that would have him as a member. It is safe to assume that the European Commission did not have Duck Soup in mind last month when it warned France, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Malta and Spain to bring their budget deficits back into line. But a club in which nearly half of the members are flouting the rules and are in danger of being blackballed might be to Groucho’s anarchic taste. What it says about the workings of the European Union is less than funny.

The timing of the warning from the rules committee was not exactly gentlemanly. The spread of Spanish, Greek and Portuguese debt over Bunds had just hit fresh records, as had the cost of insuring against Irish default in the CDS market. This has prompted more excited talk about the demise of the...


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