Transatlantic Strife
I don't deny that calm was restored thanks to Mario Draghi, and especially the OMT. I just point out that the OMT is inseparable from the austerity measures, and it's the package that financial markets respond to.
Heleen Mees, teaches at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and is the author of The Chinese Birdcage - How China’s Rise Almost Toppled the West.
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Iran’s mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel last week raised anew the specter of a widening Middle East war that draws in Iran and its proxies, as well as Western countries like the United States. The urgent need to defuse tensions – starting by ending Israel’s war in Gaza and pursuing a lasting political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is obvious, but can it be done?