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In a ‘debt-centered’ country such as Italy, the raise of interest rates is instinctively received in a bad way. Wherever that occurs. Hence, for a super indebted state, the decision by the Federal Reserve to leave Fed funds untouched, is at first glance a reason for relief. Yet, Italy would need to

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For ten years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been suspected of being unable to grieve. In the ’60s, psychologists Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich attributed this syndrome—which consists of the inability to emphasize with the suffering of others—to the entire German population.

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Firing shots at Europe has turned into a national, or supranational, sport—given the increased popularity of anti-euro movements in nearly all of the Old Continent’s countries. And the reasons to criticize Europe—not as an ideal, but as the ensemble of institutions that has governed over the past

Mondo

New York – Barack Obama annnucia oggi la svolta di “policy” sugli ostaggi americani, un cambio che se non è radicale vuol essere però significativo. Che intende cancellare del tutto la minaccia che finora incombeva sulle famiglie dei prigionieri impegnate a tentare di pagare un riscatto. E che

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If anyone still thinks that five years of negotiations on the Greek debt are too many, it would be best to look back at the news stories from last week. In the middle of frantic and fruitless talks among Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Europe and the creditors, an almost forgotten note from

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The main risk for the stability of the global economy, according to the Fitch agency, does not come form the slowdown of emerging economies nor for the shift in the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, but rather from a new crisis in the euro zone.

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The duel between Greece and Germany has become fiery and has taken the euro zone as a hostage. Not in terms of technical issues, missing figures and black holes of an extremely tense and difficult negotiation but rather on personal resentments, national passions, conflicting and increasingly

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Reality and representation. The show of force in the Democratic Party takes center stage, but it risks making us forget about what really counts. The electoral reform that Parliament is about to approve is a revolution for Italy’s political system: it guarantees a governability that is crucial for

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What convinced Jabhat Al Nusra—recognized by Al Qaeda leader, Ayman Al Zawahiri as the Syrian branch of the movement—to free Vanessa Marzullo and Greta Ramelli?

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In 2002, former European Central Bank (ECB) member Otmar Issing presented a lecture titled: “The euro four years later: is there a risk of deflation?” A lot of water passed under the bridge, but the deflation finally arrived. The December index shows the euro zone’s inflation rate to be below zero.

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The Jobs Act unveils the contradictions of the majority on the labor market. Bridging the gap between former center-right Labor minister Maurizio Sacconi and

Economia

PARIS – As the eurozone debates how to escape the stagnation trap in which it finds itself, one question has become increasingly important: Can governments

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Yesterday, the Juncker era began in Strasbourg in the name of hope and pragmatism: the hope that does not live only of rhetoric and weak promises but rather of

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Italy’s industry association, Confindustria, has cut its Italian economic growth forecast to 0.2 percent in 2014 from the 0.7 percent estimated in December,

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With a guilty delay, the specter of deflation has been named Europe’s number one public enemy. It is incomprehensible how important central bankers and