Archive for the “Europe” category
A show of unity, at last
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on October 29, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Angela Merkel, bailout, euro crisis, Nicholas Sarkozy, Silvio Berlusconi
In Brussels last week European ministers reached agreement on the debt crisis (in fact they reached it at 4am on Wednesday morning). It had been thought that expectations might be too high. Already an earlier meeting of finance ministers had (…)
The turning point
by Richard Attias on October 25, 2011 • One comment • Tagged as: euro crisis, Gilad Shalit, jobs, Morocco elections, Muammar Gaddafi, Tunisia elections
News of the capture and killing of Col. Muammar Gaddafi last week marked a turning point in Arab politics. Gaddafi was the longest serving leader in both Africa and the Arab world, and had ruled Libya since he was 27. He (…)
Rupert Murdoch, phone-hacking & ideology: Q&A with R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
by NYF Team on August 2, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: phone-hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch, The American Spectator
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is founder and editor-in-chief of the conservative magazine, The American Spectator. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Times, the National Review, Harper’s and elsewhere. His most recent (…)
News that’s fit to print
by NYF Team on July 28, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: hacking scandal, James Morgan, News of the World, Piers Morgan, Rupert Murdoch, the Sun
A round-up of news an opinion. The impact of the News of the World hacking scandal spreads far beyond the mere closure of the paper. Questions are now being asked of the links between the police and media in the (…)
The markets will not derail the euro project: Q&A with Prof. Iain Begg
by NYF Team on July 8, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: An, Angela Merkel, Council on Foreign Relations, ECBGermany, EU, euro crisis, France, Iain Begg, T-bonds
Iain Begg is a professorial research fellow and expert on EU integration at the London School of Economics’ European Institute. He spoke to the New York Forum over the phone from Greece, where he was at a meeting to discuss (…)
Europe: what now?
by NYF Team on July 6, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: British rebates, Economist, EU, euro, Eurozone, Foreign Affairs Magazine, Germany, Gideon Rachman, Greek bailout, Sally Howard
A round-up of news & opinion. It’s fair to say that things are not looking good in Europe at the moment. This week has seen weak growth in the region’s private sector, British kvetching about attempts to tinker with its (…)
Greek crisis highlights an interconnected world: Q&A with Mark Gongloff
by NYF Team on July 1, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Economic Crisis, Europe, Financial Regulation, Global Economy, Greece, Mark Gongloff, unemployment
Mark Gongloff is the lead writer on MarketBeat, the Wall Street Journal blog about financial news and trends. In the first of a weekly series of Q&As with experts, he talks to the New York Forum about defaults, Lehman Brothers, and (…)
