Posts tagged 'European Union'

Of stereotypes and the slow end of the European affair

David joined the FT in 2011 as a Marjorie Deane fellow. He covered emerging markets, equities and currencies before making the jump over to FT Alphaville in May 2012.

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| May 14 11:01 | Comment |

Some charts from Pew’s latest survey of 8,000 people across eight EU countries, most of whom are increasingly *insert euphemism* with Europe:

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Draghi, one for the birds

Lisa joined FT Alphaville in September 2011 after a tour of duty through the guts of the financial industry, having worked as an analyst at a bank and for a financial data company. She's now the Head of New Projects for FT.com.

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| Nov 16 2012 09:36 | Comment |

On Thursday, ECB president Mario Draghi was in Milan to give a speech at Università Bocconi. It’s a charming read, as the policymaker reviews the eurozone crisis in pleasantly digestible terms even by Friday morning standards.

Once the crisis was underway, and sovereign spreads had widened out, a debate started: Read more

Brussels’ fiscal management ‘is not yet up to standard’

Masa joined the FT in 2009 and has worked on a number of desks across the paper, including Companies, Markets and Comment. She spent much of 2010 in New York covering the US equity markets. But earlier this year she finally saw the light and moved to Alphaville.

She started her career in the investment banking division at Lehman Brothers in the summer of 2007, timing it perfectly with the beginning of the credit crunch.

She studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University.

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| Nov 07 2012 10:10 | Comment |

There was good news for eurosceptics on Tuesday, as the European Court of Auditors (ECA) published its report into last year’s EU budget. The audit is already being used as yet another reason to push for a real-terms cut in the EU’s future budgets later this month.

The ECA is charged with assessing how Brussels spends its money, and its report for 2011 showed, once again, that the EU’s financial management leaves something to be desired. It found that a host of payments to EU-funded projects were affected by “material error”, with an estimated error rate of 3.9 per cent for the EU budget as a whole. Read more

EU will win 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.. [Update: it actually happened. Actually]

David joined the FT in 2011 as a Marjorie Deane fellow. He covered emerging markets, equities and currencies before making the jump over to FT Alphaville in May 2012.

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| Oct 12 2012 09:38 | Comment |

An enormous hat-tip to Vilde Helljesen…

The press release is here and the unsurprisingly politicised bottom line from the committe is:

The work of the EU represents “fraternity between nations”, and amounts to a form of the “peace congresses” to which Alfred Nobel refers as criteria for the Peace Prize in his 1895 will.

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