Time is fast running out for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to display a greater sense of leadership in the ongoing eurozone debt crisis. My colleagues and I believe that market reactions will grow increasingly violent unless decisive steps are taken to fast-track fiscal integration and strengthen existing bailout facilities. But we also note the growing… [Read more]
With the centre-right taking control in Germany and polls suggesting the same for the UK in 2010, we ask David Snowdon, Global Economic Strategist at BMI, to examine the potential policy repercussions for Western Europe and beyond. While the centre-left has lost ground electorally, David suggests that this may not necessarily herald a major ideological… [Read more]
Germany’s general elections on Sunday produced a victory for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which now looks set to form a coalition with the centre-right Free Democrats (FDP). The two parties would have a parliamentary majority of 42. This will bring to an end four years of the ‘Grand Coalition’ between the CDU and the… [Read more]
