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Eurozone crisis: Young and restless, the new masters of Europe
7 August 201236724 International Herald Tribune Paris -
Finance: MEPs approve the Tobin tax
24 May 201212115PresseuropLa Tribune, The Daily Telegraph -
Eurozone crisis: European rating agency in the pipeline
19 January 2012846PresseuropDiário de Notícias -
Eurozone crisis: After the downgrades comes the downward spiral
16 January 201222263 Financial Times London -
Eurozone crisis: For S&P, the Emperor has no clothes
16 January 20126515PresseuropCorriere della Sera, Hospodárske Noviny, Die Presse & 3 others -
Eurozone crisis: France relegated to 2nd division
16 January 20125211 Le Monde Paris -
Downgrades: Solvency, not lack of liquidity, is driving Europe down
16 January 2012PresseuropBlog -
Debate: To France its farmers, to Britain its banks
15 December 201113856 The Times London -
Eurozone crisis: For the drop
7 December 201138 I Kathimerini Athens -
Eurozone crisis: Rating agencies - don’t shoot the messenger
7 December 201110811 The Daily Telegraph London -
Eurozone crisis: The destructive rise of the rating agencies
7 December 201120313 Libération Paris -
Eurozone crisis: In the crosshairs
6 December 201123 The Nation Bangkok -
Eurozone crisis: How business is preparing for Eurogeddon
1 December 20112853PresseuropPresseurop -
Economic crisis: Technocracy has been here all along
29 November 2011PresseuropBlog -
Finance: Don’t invest too much in bank-bashing
24 November 2011PresseuropBlog -
Debt crisis: Emergency aid
22 November 201193 De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdam -
Economic integration: A how many speeds Europe?
14 November 2011PresseuropBlog -
Greek referendum: Democracy has junk status
2 November 2011101218 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Press review: Another attack from the rating agencies
19 October 20119616Presseurop -
Italy: Moody’s drives in another nail
5 October 2011PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Italy: Downgraded
20 September 201138 Corriere della Sera Milan -
Debt crisis: Czech Republic's rating increases
25 August 2011PresseuropHospodářské Noviny -
Debt crisis: Dangerous waters
12 August 201128 Le Vif/L’Express Brussels -
Rethinking Europe (2): No more working behind closed doors
21 July 2011803 Spiked London -
Eurozone crisis: Understand the banks and you save the euro
14 July 201110311 Die Zeit Hamburg -
Eurozone crisis: ECB puts up a fight
8 July 201150 Presseurop -
Debt: Will no-one rid us of the rating agencies?
7 July 20111435 Público Lisbon -
Debt crisis: War declared on rating agencies
7 July 2011891PresseuropPresseurop -
Debt crisis: Portugal’s junk status gives Ireland jitters
7 July 2011PresseuropThe Irish Times -
Greece: After bailout, new default rumours
5 July 2011PresseuropPúblico -
Debt crisis: Credit rating agencies go after euro
13 June 201146410 Libération Paris -
Belgium: Credit rating agencies turn up the heat
24 May 2011PresseuropDe Standaard -
Debt crisis: A respite for Belgium
9 May 2011PresseuropLe Soir -
Belgium: Spate of banker bonuses sparks fury
24 March 2011PresseuropDe Morgen -
Financial crisis: Rescue madness will sink us
3 February 2011PresseuropHandelsblatt -
UK-Germany: Banks getting stroppier
12 January 201128PresseuropPresseurop -
THE 10 DAYS OF EUROPE | 5: Join the Church of the Concrete
28 December 20104934 Presseurop -
THE 10 DAYS OF EUROPE | 4: The EU is a car
27 December 2010391 Presseurop -
Economic crisis: The curse of credit rating agencies
21 December 2010246 The Guardian London -
Recovery: Wanted: Germany's economy, not its opinions
9 December 2010PresseuropBlog -
Debt crisis: Ireland - Germany’s paradise lost
7 December 20101641 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Financial Markets: ECB throws out the lifeline
3 December 2010PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Debt crisis: And lest we forget... Romania
26 November 2010PresseuropAdevărul -
Eurozone crisis: Speculators swoop on Spain
24 November 2010PresseuropPúblico -
Spain: Dublin dunked, now make for Madrid
23 November 2010PresseuropEl Mundo -
Debt crisis: Spanish fears amidst Irish black humour
11 November 201021PresseuropEl País -
Finance: Will EU watchdogs have any bite?
7 September 201027 De Standaard Brussels -
Economic Governance: Beefing up EU's financial supervision
3 September 2010PresseuropFinancial Times -
Finance : Brussels closes in on ratings agencies
3 June 2010PresseuropLe Soir -
Finance: Euro in hot water
19 January 2010261 Die Zeit Hamburg
With a click, the young City traders can bring down governments or threaten the survival of the euro. But, by their own admission, they have difficulty interpreting the confusing signals from European leaders and act cautiously, in a vicious cycle that feeds the debt crisis. 
In the wake of the collective downgrading of 9 eurozone countries, including France, it’s become clear that the EU’s policy of rescue funds coupled with fiscal austerity has exhausted itself. It’s time for Angela Merkel and her partners to find a credible outcome, writes Wolfgang Münchau. 
For the European press, the ratings downgrade for nine eurozone countries by Standard & Poor's merely confirms what markets and leaders have known for a long time: that the difficulties of the eurozone are primarily due to rifts between the member countries. 
Standard & Poor's 13 January downgrade of France’s credit rating is a double blow: Nicolas Sarkozy and his presidential election rivals will come under even greater pressure from the markets while the North-South divide in Europe has grown significantly wider. 
Accused of isolationism for steering clear of the December 9 EU26 growth and stability pact, David Cameron is only protecting, like other European leaders, his country’s vital interests, writes a British columnist. 
Standard & Poor's threat to downgrade the eurozone as a bloc has aroused the ire of European leaders and opinion makers. But according to a British columnist, the rating agency is only telling the unpalatable truth. 
By placing the eurozone under negative watch on the eve of the European Council meeting, Standard & Poor's has confirmed the emergence of a limitless economic power that is overwhelming the structures and rules of democracy, writes a worried Libération. 
He who submits a vital issue to a referendum is a public menace to Europe. This has been the message from the markets – and since Monday night, from the politicians too. 
A few days ahead of the EU summit that should be “decisive” for the eurozone, rating agencies have degraded or threatened to degrade the sovereign rating of Spain and France and the Italian banks. A final assault while Brussels is trying to get its act together? asks the European press. 
Insulated from the public and unpracticed in the art of political leadership, small wonder EU officialdom is so powerless to tackle a eurozone crisis that risks scuppering the European project itself, argues sociologist Frank Furedi.
The fate of the euro is a matter of indifference to the financial markets. Investors are pulling their money out of Rome, Athens, Lisbon and Madrid. And Europe – especially Germany – is doing everything to drive off the financiers it so depends on. 
In deciding to raise its key interest rate and guarantee Portuguese bonds, the European Central Bank has taken a stand against rating agencies. Without actually doing any favours for the countries in crisis, notes the European press. 
Quick to denounce the ‘oligopoly’ of the rating agencies, European leaders have so far failed to take concrete steps to counter their baleful influence, writes Portugal’s Público daily. 
Considering that they failed to see the previous crises coming, Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch are suspected of wanting to destabilise the euro zone, and now they are threatening the strongest countries. 
In the eighties and early noughties as stock market prices soared, we were burning cattle in the fields of Europe. But now the cult of abstract value is giving way to a return to faith in the real value of material things, Portuguese writer Gonçalo Tavares explains. 
Europe isn’t exactly a wellspring of artistic inspiration, writes German author Thomas Brussig. It’s really more like a car, which, though a fetish object for some, is for most just a vehicle that takes you where you want to go. 
The economic destiny of nations is now in the hands of credit rating agencies Moody's, S&P's, Fitch. Unelected, unaccountable and with hugely inflated powers, they must be curbed, argues a Guardian columnist. 
Ireland, the poor, pure island, was a place Germans longed for, at least ever since Heinrich Böll. Till the country succumbed to turbo-capitalism, dealing another body blow to the euro and dashing the German dream of a better world, laments Der Spiegel. 
On 7 September Europe’s 27 member states approved plans for the launch of European authorities to supervise banks, insurers and financial markets. However, De Standaard argues that the new watchdogs have not been provided with the resources they will need if they are to be truly effective. 
Germans’ favourite countries for holidaymaking are going broke. And Europeans will have to foot the bill for the worst debtors, explains Die Zeit, lest they become the next dominoes to teeter and topple into financial chaos. - 1 of 2
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