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- David Prosser: The battle for fiscal credibility
The credit ratings agency Fitch is entitled to its view that Britain's current plan to cut the budget deficit is too vague and too slow. But if Fitch, or any other critic, thinks it is going to get any more clarity from the Government – or the Conservatives, for that matter – on deficit reduction this side of the election, it is living in cloud cuckoo land. 信用格付け会社フィッチは、表示するためには、英国の現在の計画は、財政赤字削減にも曖昧過ぎるからですが遅すぎる権利がある
- Why Belgium is a microcosm of the European Union | Ilana Bet-El
Belgians are just like the EU with its eurozone crisis: neighbours united by history and politics – and mutual resentmentFor a long time, it seemed as if Belgium was the cuckoo in the nest of the European Union: the state that could muster neither a hard core of cohesive national pride like most of its neighbours, nor the will to split apart, as the Czechs and the Slovaks did. But as the financial crisis has devolved into the euro crisis, it is becoming clear Belgium is actually emblematic of the EU, as a polity of diverse groups of people bound together by history, law, politics, common sense and mutual need – who fundamentally do not like each other.The euro crisis can be seen either as an economic problem with geopolitical implications, or else as a geopolitical problem with economic consequences. On the whole, politicians and commentators have stuck firmly with the former interpretation – which is hardly surprising since they have largely been quoting economists. It is also easier to believe the problem is just a matter of austerity measures, shock-and-awe bailout packages, and market turbulence. However, such a view is narrow, and possibly irrelevant in the face of the opposite reality: even if you balance the euro books by some miracle, or else create a mechanism for throwing out Greece and other offenders on fiscal probity, the geopolitical fundamentals will not disappear.As I pointed out some weeks ago, Greece was taken into the then European Community before it was ready for membership for purely political reasons, which all remain relevant: it still has an unstable relationship with Turkey, verging on dismal; both states still have stakes in opposing sides in Cyprus, and show little inclination to change their attitude too much – though Turkey has made some in ベルギーは、欧州連合の巣の中のカッコウ：どちらもハードコアを出すことが国家であったかのようにベルギーは、ユーロ圏の危機とEUのようだ：隣人の歴史と政治が団結 - とresentmentFor長い時間相互、それが見えた近隣の一番好きな凝集国の誇り、またなるのは別に、チェコとして分割するスロバキアはなかった
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