Bill Emmott – Berlin Policy Journal – Blog https://berlinpolicyjournal.com A bimonthly magazine on international affairs, edited in Germany's capital Mon, 23 May 2016 09:07:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.7 Shifting Gears https://berlinpolicyjournal.com/shifting-gears/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:38:51 +0000 http://berlinpolicyjournal.com/?p=2924 The “convergence machine” was designed to build wealth within the continent while helping its lagging members catch up. Now, however, the same mechanisms are rendering the currency union less flexible.

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Europe has a problem. It is not just about economic “competitiveness”, and it is not a new one; it does not date from the sovereign debt crisis and the resulting end of cheap private-sector credit, which expanded in both Europe and the United States during the first decade of the 21st century. Those calamities have exposed the problem, while also making it harder to solve – but they did not create it. …

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