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The German constitutional debate about the legality of the ECB’s OMT (Outright Monetary Transactions) program continues with the head of the Bundesbank arguing that Germany risks significant losses and grave damage to its credibility and ultimately it is the German tax payer who carries the risk.

Morning Market Report

Jun 13, 2013

Too many political leaders around the world have very little understanding of how the banking system works, writes <b>Robert Gottliebsen</b>, of Business Spectator.

Gottliebsen: blind to a global banking disaster

Jun 07, 2012

Central bankers and politicians, including Wayne Swan, are trying to spin low interest rates as a good thing in an effort to calm the markets. But the reality is the European Monetary Union doesn't work.

Kohler: politicians can’t hide the EMU’s foul stench

Jun 06, 2012

As the principal creditor to the eurozone, Germany is seriously exposed to the European monetary system, making a German exit from the eurozone perhaps more likely than a Greek or Spanish exit.

Kohler: how safe is Germany, really?

Jun 04, 2012

<b>Crikey media wrap</b>: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled their joint plan for strict debt discipline guidelines to help save the troubled currency.

Merkozy bands together to save the euro

Dec 06, 2011

Financial markets succumbed to a fresh bout of pessimism overnight, as investors queried the ability of the new Italian and Greek leaders to tackle the massive economic challenges they confront.

Maley: three bitter solutions for Europe

Nov 15, 2011

Tensions between Paris and Berlin are set to flare, as fears grow that the flames of the debt crisis now engulfing Italy could soon spread to Belgium and France.

Maley: feuding over a French firewall

Nov 11, 2011

Europe’s debt crisis continued to roil markets overnight, with Italian bond yields surging through the critical 7% level overnight, as European officials mulled over the possibility of a radical reshaping of the eurozone.

Italy’s capital punishment

Nov 10, 2011

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was fighting for his political survival overnight, as Italy’s borrowing costs reached new highs.

Maley: a bitter end for Berlusconi

Nov 08, 2011

As European leaders gathered in Brussels overnight in yet another attempt to stem the region’s worsening debt crisis, attention was focused on the key role that two Italians are now playing.

Maley: no more Italian dolce vita

Oct 27, 2011

Europe is on the brink -- and it's a measure of how fast-moving the crisis is that I must add the phrase "at time of writing".

Europe and how a colony on the moon can save it

Oct 26, 2011

Europe should be preparing for an orderly default for Greece, with money to backstop banks and countries such as Spain, Italy, Belgium and even France. No other path of action is realistic any more.

€360b souvlaki in the back of the room refuses to go away

Oct 24, 2011

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