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Bank deposit dispute may delay Iceland talks

February 27, 2010

Ironic that the European Commission’s positive report on Iceland’s application to join the EU, produced in just six months, should have coincided with the breakdown of talks over the €3.9 billion which the Netherlands and the UK are demanding from Iceland for the collapse of the Icesave bank. It is widely predicted that Icelanders will… » read more

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Banking, Dutch, English, Enlargement, Fisheries, UK politics

A new age for Europe or the old story?

February 13, 2010

It should be a time for celebration. The Lisbon Treaty has come into force, a new European Commission has been convincingly approved by the Parliament, the European Council has a permanent president and a European foreign policy structure has been created. Yet it feels as if Europe’s clock has been turned back ten years, to… » read more

Posted by Michael Berendt

ECB, English, EU Institutions, European politics, Eurozone, Finance, International politics, Treaty of Lisbon

Michael Berendt's blog

Blogging commentary on current events from the perspective of someone who has been closely involved with the policies, the policy-makers and the whole complex network of people who make the process of European integration so exciting and absorbing.


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