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Guardian: Britain and France: seasonal greetings
[The Guardian] - As Simon Tilford of the Centre for European Reform argues, the fiscal compact agreed in Brussels and about which a draft version circulated yesterday hard-wires pro-cyclical, fiscal austerity into the institutional framework of the eurozone.
Guardian: Will David Cameron's veto protect the City?
[The Guardian (blog)] - Cameron won nothing and with his veto forced the rest to forge an international treaty between governments on the euro crisis, meaning UK has no voice or vote there Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, told me: I find it
Merkel's Teutonic summit enshrines Hooverism in EU treaty law
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - said Simon Tilford from the Centre for European Reform. Nor was there any change in the mandate of the ECB, not even a tweak towards growth, nor a hint that financial stability (not manipulating short-term prices) is the ultimate duty of a central bank
Brussels summit 'will not resolve euro crisis'
www.channel4.com
[Channel 4 News] - Simon Tilford, from the pro-European Centre for European Reform, agreed, telling Channel 4 News: "This week's summit will do little to solve the fundamentals of this crisis." To curb excessive borrowing, the summit agreed a so-called "fiscal compact"
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