Os artigos referidos aqui, todos, de um modo ou outro, têm a crise como pano de fundo, mas, também, têm preocupações, digamos, mais políticas, estratégicas, ou apelam para a reflexão de aspectos económicos da União Europeia que nos diferenciam da experiência anglo-saxónica.
- FT.com / Brussels - Euroscepticism is yesterday’s creed By Gideon Rachman"I am ready to retire as a eurosceptic. The European Union is in trouble. But rather than smirking – which would be the normal reaction of a sceptic – I am alarmed [...]But it is precisely the threat to the EU that has focused my mind. Plans for a political union in Europe were always crazy. But the four freedoms already established by the EU – free movement of goods, people, services and capital – are huge and tangible achievements. It would be terrible to see them rolled back."
FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Flexibility gives way to rigidity’s virtues [...] The idea that flexibility is good and rigidity is bad continues to influence the minds of policymakers and analysts. Rating agencies, for example, continue to give a more favourable rating to US and UK sovereign debt based on the notion that the greater flexibility of these countries gives them a better capacity to adjust to the crisis than rigid countries such as Spain, Italy and Ireland. The opposite is true. Today, rigidities in wages, employment and social security allow countries to deal better with the great rigidity that the fixed levels of debt impose on households and companies. We should cherish these rigidities.
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