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Tag: G20

  • NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT ! , by François Leclerc

    Guest post. Translated from the French by Tim Gupwell

    The G20 in Los Cabos seemed like a preparatory meeting for the Summit of the Heads of State and European Governments! This seems to highlight the fact that they no longer know what to do, and are running round like headless chicken.

    The same ideas that had previously been abandoned are back on the table, only to be refused once again by Angela Merkel. Thus, Mario Monti proposed, during the G20, that the EFSF/ESM buy sovereign bonds in order to ease market conditions. He was supported in vain by Mariano Rajoy … Read the rest

  • BACK FROM LOS CABOS, by François Leclerc

    Guest post. Translated from the French by Tim Gupwell

    Given that the G20 has confined itself to mere generalities and that the European Summit on the 28th and 29th June is dangerously close, what can be expected of the meeting in Rome on the 22nd June between Angela Merkel, Mario Monti, Mariano Rajoy and François Hollande, intended to serve as preparation for it?

    Two projects are being examined in parallel by the European institutions, which are being assembled together and presented as if they were one of Great Wonders of the World. Firstly, by issuing Eurobonds with … Read the rest

  • A BIG BANG, OR NOTHING , by François Leclerc

    Guest post. Translated from the French by Tim Gupwell

    With the G20 meeting being held in Mexico at the start of the week, our perspective will find itself altered, falsely accustomed as we are to only seeing the debt crisis from a European angle. On the 18th and 19th June, the greats of this world are going to gather in Los Cabos, a tourist resort in Southern Lower California, under the double auspices of debt and global recovery.

    To avoid standing idly by whilst confronted by a disaster of its own making, the British Government has just announced a plan … Read the rest