Breaking the link between banks and sovereigns (or not)

The FT has a sobering report here.

Europe’s Parallels With the 1920s

here.

Expulsions: The Fifth Circle of Hell

Title: Expulsions: The Fifth Circle of Hell
Speaker: Professor Saskia Sassen (Columbia University and LSE)
Date and time: 15 January 2013, 7 pm
Venue: Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building

Details here.

Celtic metamorphosis

There are many journalists in Dublin this week for the start of the EU Presidency.

The Charlemagne column in the new issue of the Economist is here.

The accuracy of the European Commission’s forecasts re-examined

here.