The entry of Lithuania into the eurosystem in 2015 will trigger the long-planned vote rotation system at the governing council: see ECB FAQ here, the 2002 press release here that explains the change in the ECB voting system to cater for enlargement (as envisaged in the Treaty of Nice) and the revelation in today’s Sunday Independent here.
Today’s Irish Times has my two cents on Ireland’s economic recovery here
The fifth in the VoxEU series of articles on the economics of World War I is available here.
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The political economy of reforming the US corporate tax code is reported here.