@securislav Hey! This is me :)

.Duarte: "I hope the reader will pardon a bit of Euromaxxing but we invented the world wide web, we have high speed rail tunnels under the alps and roundabouts under the sea. [...] There’s no two ways about it: we are a continent of builders." santiago-martins.com/european-accel…

"The ECB stands ready to adjust all of our instruments within our mandate to ensure that inflation returns to our medium-term target."

Absolutely amazing story that sums up German attitudes towards card payments - a barkeeper in Bavaria called the police (!) and barred a Latvian patron who insisted on paying by card 😂

Disappointed no one asked President Lagarde a Taylor Swift question at today's presser...

An excellent paper, but it’s not just about 🇩🇪: all member States should understand that industrial policy is better done at 🇪🇺 level. Competing against each other rather than against 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇳 will just hasten their decline.

🇪🇺 The most depressing European chart ever: long-term growth expectations are down to a all-time low of less than 1.3%. Draghi: "Europe faces a choice between paralysis, exit or integration. Exit has been tried. Paralysis is becoming untenable. Integration is our only hope left."

How much difference a couple of years can make... found in a bookshop in London today!

Not sure that Europe is remotely ready for this Source: ⁦The Economist⁩

"Europe pays Russia for gas; Russia uses that money to wage war against Ukraine; in turn, Europe gives money to Ukraine to stop Russia." Europe and Russia's Kafkaesque energy connection remains, Javier Blas writes. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

We are accountable to you via your elected representatives. Our latest #EconomicBulletin looks at how this works in practice, how it has evolved in recent years and how we work with the European Parliament to strengthen our accountability.

Divide and concur — this radical plan from 1920, for "lasting peace" after WW1, proposed uniting central Europe into 24 wedge-shaped cantons which would radiate out from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral: publicdomainreview.org/collection/uni…

Stock markets at record highs, low unemployment, wage growth exceeds inflation, the best handling of inflation of any G7 nation, energy independence, and I can go on and on and on...But no matter how this result lands, whether VP Harris ekes this out or not, it is amazing how

Scholz apparently asked Lindner to suspend the constitutional debt brake, which Lindner refused, so the Chancellor sacked him instead...

It’s live! The past few days simeon bischl and I have had some intense coding sessions and we are happy to share the result: centralbanktalk.eu this website includes various tools to explore central bank communication. (1/

strong contender to the roger pfund proposal for the euro x.com/contraeconomy/…

Our big take on the business model of Germany as it heads into elections. Once dominant, it is now desperate. (with thanks, inter alia, to Danyal Bayaz, Sander Tordoir, Max Krahé, Thorsten Benner, Clemens Fuest & Moritz Schularick) economist.com/europe/2024/11…

"Die Steigbügelhalter, Speichellecker, gesinnungs- und charakterlosen Mitläufer stehen auch jetzt bereit, dem blauen Sieger bei der Abschaffung des verhassten "Systems", der liberalen Demokratie, zu helfen." derstandard.at/story/30000002…

The ECB is accountable to the people of Europe through the European Parliament. As such, we have published our feedback statement responding to the issues raised by European Parliament in its resolution on our 2023 Annual Report.

Russia’s “peace” last night: a massive strike on Kyiv with drones and ballistic missiles. At least 10 killed, 30 injured, many buildings destroyed. The EU Delegation was severely damaged by the shock wave. This is Moscow’s true answer to peace efforts.