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Angela Merkel holds firm on plan for financial tax despite British fears

Posted by seumasach on November 19, 2011

The EU and its institutions are being rendered obsolete by a crisis largely engineered by City if London interests. The law of unintended consequences once more imposes itself and Cameron finds himself completely wrong-footed: instead of a reformed EU in which Britain can continue in its wrecking role, Britain finds itself left out in the cold by a the new europe, a reconstituted Eurozone.

Telegraph

19th November, 2011

Speaking after talks with David Cameron in Berlin, Mrs Merkel also pointedly rejected the Prime Minister’s call for the European Central Bank to play the main role in bailing out troubled eurozone countries.

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How the EU Can Emerge from the Ashes

Posted by seumasach on November 18, 2011

 

Spiegel

18th November, 2011

The old European Union didn’t work, that much has been made clear by the ongoing debt crisis. But many in Europe think there is now a clear path to a new, more integrated — and smaller — bloc. What must happen first? Greater democracy and less nation-state sovereignty. By SPIEGEL Staff

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