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Howard Davies

Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…
Haruhiko Kuroda

India’s Growth Crossroads

MANILA – As the slowdown in the world’s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected. A serious burden w…
Hans-Werner Sinn

The Collateral Damage of Europe’s Rescue

MUNICH – The eurozone is now in its sixth year of crisis – and of efforts by the European Central Bank and the international community to en…
Paul R. Ehrlich

The Food Threat to Human Civilization

PALO ALTO – Humanity faces a growing complex of serious, highly interconnected environmental problems, including much-discussed challenges l…

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Joschka Fischer Apr. 30, 2013

The Erosion of Europe

BERLIN – Just weeks ago, the worst of the financial crisis in Europe seemed to be over. Stability seemed to be returning. But appearances pr…
Hans-Werner Sinn Apr. 23, 2013

Should Germany Exit the Euro?

MUNICH – Last summer, the financier George Soros urged Germany to agree to the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism, calling on…
Jean Pisani-Ferry Mar. 30, 2013

The Politics of Moral Hazard

BRUSSELS – It is an old and never-ending contest. On one side are the moral-hazard scolds, claiming that one of the major responsibilities c…
Giles Merritt Mar. 26, 2013

Penny Wise, Gas Foolish

BRUSSELS – Europe is on the verge of making a historic mistake, one that would compound the growing sense of European decay and collapse. Th…
Harold James Mar. 26, 2013

The Dirge of Cyprus

PRINCETON – Europe can choose its own musical accompaniment to its latest crisis. In Berlin, 50 Cent’s “All Things Fall Apart” has just had …
Javier Solana Mar. 25, 2013

A New Business Model for Cyprus

MADRID – Once again, Europe has peered into the abyss. But the tentative agreement between Cyprus and the troika (the European Commission, t…
Ashoka Mody Mar. 21, 2013

Rolling the Dice in Cyprus

PRINCETON – The task was never going to be an easy one: impose losses worth about €5.8 billion ($7.5 billion) on lenders to the Cypriot gove…
Michael Spence Mar. 19, 2013

Europe, Italian-Style

MILAN – Last summer, after two years of growing uncertainty, systemic risk in the eurozone finally began to wane, as conditional commitments…
Ivan Krastev Mar. 13, 2013

Bulgaria’s Revolt Against Consensus

SOFIA – The logic behind the European Union’s drive to constitutionalize budget constraints and remove key economic decisions from electoral…
Ian Buruma Mar. 4, 2013

Send in the Clowns

NEW YORK – When too many Italians voted late last month for either a louche and discredited business tycoon or a comedian, European stock ma…

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