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Brown to replace Strauss-Kahn in IMF top job? | Central Europe Activ
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Brown to replace Strauss-Kahn in IMF top job? May 15, 2011. While Ms Merkel cannot discuss urgent matters on the euro crisis with the IMF while Mr Strauss-Kahn is detained in the United States, Mr Brown has already popped up again as a substitute for Stauss-Kahn. For the top IMF job. Even if London is the biggest financial center of Europe, given the British disengagement with the EU it would look very odd if a top British politician would be nominated from this side of the Atlantic. It is also interesti...
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Quartet | Central Europe Activ
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What is the EU (and Tony Blair) doing in the ‘peace process’? May 15, 2011. When Sen. Mitchell, the Middle East envoy of the Obama administration resigned on Friday, I immediately asked ‘what is Tony Blair doing’? In the time-frame of a single weekend, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has regained its importance in the Middle Eastern region. If the EU countries want it or not, they will have to play their… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. A Central European perspective. EU Priorities and Opinion.
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IMF | Central Europe Activ
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Brown to replace Strauss-Kahn in IMF top job? May 15, 2011. While Ms Merkel cannot discuss urgent matters on the euro crisis with the IMF while Mr Strauss-Kahn is detained in the United States, Mr Brown has already popped up again as a substitute for Stauss-Kahn for the top IMF job. Even if London is the biggest financial center of Europe, given the British disengagement with… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. IMF: ‘Broad agreement with Hungary’ – with the EU and World Bank following. October 28, 2008.
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Hungary | Central Europe Activ
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This time it was not different – bailouts in 2008 and 2011. November 3, 2011. With Alex Katsiatis we have written a post two years ago about the dysfunctional Greek politics in the context of the Hungarian bailout of ’08, predicting that the Greek party will lead to a similar hangover. Very interesting in retrospect. The only reason why the money markets could not pick on Greece instead of Hungary… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. Elvis (Officially) Dead in Budapest. March 24, 2011. January 22, 2011.
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Economy & Euro | Central Europe Activ
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Archives for Economy and Euro. This time it was not different – bailouts in 2008 and 2011. November 3, 2011. With Alex Katsiatis we have written a post two years ago about the dysfunctional Greek politics in the context of the Hungarian bailout of ’08, predicting that the Greek party will lead to a similar hangover. Very interesting in retrospect. The only reason why the money markets could not pick on Greece instead of Hungary… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. May 6, 2010. Posted by Dániel Antal.
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Globalization | Central Europe Activ
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Brown to replace Strauss-Kahn in IMF top job? May 15, 2011. While Ms Merkel cannot discuss urgent matters on the euro crisis with the IMF while Mr Strauss-Kahn is detained in the United States, Mr Brown has already popped up again as a substitute for Stauss-Kahn for the top IMF job. Even if London is the biggest financial center of Europe, given the British disengagement with… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. What is the EU (and Tony Blair) doing in the ‘peace process’? Posted by Dániel Antal. Person...
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Greece | Central Europe Activ
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This time it was not different – bailouts in 2008 and 2011. November 3, 2011. With Alex Katsiatis we have written a post two years ago about the dysfunctional Greek politics in the context of the Hungarian bailout of ’08, predicting that the Greek party will lead to a similar hangover. Very interesting in retrospect. The only reason why the money markets could not pick on Greece instead of Hungary… » read more. Posted by Dániel Antal. Greece, a Divided House and a Need for Constitution. May 6, 2010.
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DSK should sort out his private life, not the euro crisis | Central Europe Activ
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DSK should sort out his private life, not the euro crisis. May 15, 2011. For a long time it was seen as a virtue that the French press was not grilling politician’s private lives. I think that the French public owes a lot to NYC gossip press and NYPD when it was saved from a non-substantial presidential campaign about the respective. Of Messieurs Strauss-Kahn and Sarkozy. In the meantime, the German Chancellor and other European leaders are waiting for an IMF leader they can talk about the. On Strauss-Ka...
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LATVIAN ABROAD: June 2009
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Reports from a country in crisis, from someone who returned to it two years ago. Sunday, June 14, 2009. The worst of the cuts. It's 3 days since the last budget proposal. Is out. So far, most of the public anger. Has concentrated on the cuts in the retirement benefits (70% for working retirees, 10% for the rest). But there are far worse things in the proposal. Or does one cut salaries of doctors and nurses by 40-50-60% to achieve a 25% cut in total costs? Healthcare Ministry official proposes. There was ...
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LATVIAN ABROAD: Latvian healthcare disaster, part 3
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Reports from a country in crisis, from someone who returned to it two years ago. Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Latvian healthcare disaster, part 3. According to this article ( Latvian. Riga 1st hospital will be only able to treat 10 emergency patients per day:. According to the 2009 plan of VOAVA (the Latvian government agency that. Contracts with hospitals), there will be money for treating 16,000 patients. Since 14,070 patients have already been treated until July 15, this means that,. All About Latvia (LV).
