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Financial markets have reacted so strongly because investors now comprehend that “sovereign debt” is the debt of a sovereign that can simply decide not to pay.
Holders of bonds of the eurozone’s member states have now been put on notice that, when the going gets tough, the real sovereign, “We, the people,” might be asked whether they actually want to pay.
If Germany’s new government leads the charge toward a stronger, more federal Europe, a century from now, there may well be no sovereign German political unit at all.
This is a major problem, given that Russia, despite its miniscule sovereign debt of only 13% of GDP, cannot borrow on global financial markets, owing to Western sanctions.
Indeed, with Brazil’s creditworthiness deteriorating fast, interest-rate spreads on its sovereign debt are reaching Argentine levels.
These measures, too, are supposedly doomed because they all involve increasing governments’ liabilities, and financial markets are at a tipping point with respect to sovereign debt.
In 2009-2010, some mid-ranking officials and commentators even referred to the South China Sea as a sovereign “core interest” like Taiwan or Tibet.
The Consequences of Angela MerkelLONDON – Germany has been leading the opposition in the European Union to any write-down of troubled eurozone members’ sovereign debt.
In mid-July 2011, Greece’s sovereign debt stood at €350 billion (160% of GDP).
The non-aligned movement also stood for the principle of including in the UN, as a matter of right, all sovereign countries.
For now – and probably for a long time to come – the eurozone will continue to be a union of sovereign states, with each country responsible for its own policies and for their outcome.
The EU, which emphasizes human rights and openness, threatens the Kremlin’s sovereign democracy project.
The EU should make use of the ambiguity at the heart of Russia’s sovereign democracy.
The trouble is that the steep escalation of enlargement coincides with a swing of opinion in a number of member countries in favor of a more intergovernmental EU, with more emphasis on cooperation between sovereign states and less attention to strengthening common EU institutions.
The future it envisions will be defined wholly by conflicts between sovereign countries.
Addressing climate change, increased migration, and the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT) will require new, comprehensive international agreements to protect the interests of sovereign countries.
In their monumental research on centuries of public and sovereign debt, the normally very careful Reinhart and Rogoff made an error in one of their working papers.
Greek sovereign debt has been downgraded to below that of Egypt.
The euro crisis has transformed an ever-closer union of equal sovereign states, willingly sacrificing a share of their independence for the common good, into an association of creditor and debtor countries, with the debtors struggling to meet the creditors’ terms.
The sovereign state is influenced by them (for better and for worse) as much as it is able to influence them.
The near monopoly of power once enjoyed by sovereign entities is being eroded.
Governments agree to accept the rulings of the World Trade Organization because on balance they benefit from an international trading order even if a particular decision requires that they alter a practice that is their sovereign right to carry out.
Sovereign states increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another, but to forces beyond their control.
The goal should be to redefine sovereignty for the era of globalization, to find a balance between a world of fully sovereign states and an international system of either world government or anarchy.
The recent “stress tests” of European banks were blatantly designed as a confidence-building measure rather than a genuine exploration of possible systemic weaknesses – failing, for instance, to include the possibility of default on Greek sovereign debt.
Honor to whom honor is due: the Yellow Vests claim to be an expression of the sovereign people.
Though interest rates across the European Union are at historic lows, government debt in the eurozone could come under severe pressure should bond markets re-evaluate the riskiness of sovereign borrowers.
First, sovereign bonds held by banks are treated as risk-free assets under EU rules for calculating banks’ solvency and capital-adequacy levels.
At that point, interest rates on sovereign debt would have to rise to sustain governments’ borrowing levels.
If investors do decide that government bond yields are no longer worth the investment, sovereign borrowers’ options may be limited.
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