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It was therefore a bizarre coincidence that the merger’s
collapse
came on the day that the Commission unveiled its new industrial strategy for regaining Europe’s competitive edge in the face of Asian and North American competition.
The significance of the merger’s
collapse
is now becoming clear to observers across Europe, especially in Germany, where the media have been extremely critical of how “negative politics” sealed the proposed merger’s fate.
With the EU in the throes of the seemingly endless eurozone sovereign-debt crisis and facing a looming debate over its future decision-making architecture, the
collapse
of the EADS-BAE merger will be no more than a footnote in the history books.
Labour is now willing to enter an unholy alliance with them in the hope of precipitating a government
collapse.
It’s been three years since the bubble broke, and more than two since Lehman Brothers’
collapse.
With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s corruption-tainted government tottering on the brink of collapse, there has been no official explanation of how India was caught napping in a militarily critical area where, in the recent past, China had made repeated attempts to encroach on Indian land.
Instead of forcing a “Grexit,” the EU could trap Greece inside the eurozone and starve it of money, then simply sit back and watch the Tsipras government’s domestic political support
collapse.
At that point, the government’s
collapse
would become inevitable.
LONDON – The conventional wisdom regarding the recent plunge in the price of oil is that we are seeing a repeat of the 1985-1986 collapse, when Saudi Arabia ramped up production as part of a dispute with other members of the OPEC cartel.
The recent
collapse
is reminiscent of a similar dive in the price of coal – which crashed from a brief high of $140 a ton in 2008 to about $40 a ton today – which led some deposits to become “financially stranded,” meaning that the cost of developing them outweighs potential returns.
The Return of Ireland’s Housing BubbleZURICH – After having endured the
collapse
of its housing market less than a decade ago, Ireland has lately been experiencing a blistering recovery in prices, which already have risen in Dublin by some 50% from the trough in 2010.
It’s no secret that the
collapse
of asset bubbles carries massive financial and social costs.
Because bubbles tend to inflate gradually over a number of years before their abrupt collapse, letting them run a little further seems politically astute.
Ukraine, Russia, and European StabilityKYIV – Since the
collapse
of the Soviet Union, it has seemed that new rules were being established for the conduct of international relations in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has described the Soviet Union’s
collapse
as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the twentieth century.
The
collapse
of the Soviet Union created a new reality – sovereign, independent countries with their own rights and interests.
A
collapse
into chaos is more likely today than at any point in the last 70 years.
After the
collapse
of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008, capital flows were interrupted for only about a year.
The commodity-price
collapse
in 2014 caused Latin American risk spreads to grow, but only by 1.5 percentage points, which was about one-third the impact of the Lehman Brothers shock.
In his opinion, the underlying “old” patterns of political behavior (some a legacy of the pre-communist era) were temporarily pushed to the background by the wave of pro-Western civic liberalism that followed the
collapse
of communism in the region.
Responsibility for this lays largely with the Bush administration which, by terminating the ABM Treaty, not only weakened the international control systems for nuclear weapons, but also sat on its hands when confronted with the NPT’s imminent
collapse.
However, this central pillar of international proliferation control is on the brink of
collapse.
But far more influential may have been the change of heart that took place among French Socialists following the
collapse
of their experiment in Keynesian reflation in the early 1980’s.
Like Ukraine, Poland suffered from widespread corruption in the years immediately following the
collapse
of communism.
Two years ago, when shockwaves from the
collapse
of the US housing bubble crashed onto European shores, these political leaders reacted with apparent vigor, making themselves rather popular for a while.
If freedom of movement within Europe is to be maintained – and if high inflows of non-EU citizens continue – European welfare states face a stark choice: adjust or
collapse.
The Chinese economy’s dynamism is highly dependent on exports, which would suffer greatly from a
collapse
of emerging markets.
When output crumbled due to a profound banking and financial crisis (linked to the
collapse
of the gold standard), tax revenues plummeted in the US and Europe, and conservative governments tried to cut budget spending to limit budget deficits.
Argentina's widening budget deficit is mainly the result of its economic
collapse
since 1999, not the cause of it.
Closure of the banking system led to a full
collapse
of confidence in the country.
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