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    Building the Good Society: joint SPD/Compass statement launched

    Wednesday, April 08 2009
    Tags:
    democracy | economy | euro | Europe | Good Society | markets | socialism

    As reported in The Guardian Compass and its counterparts in the German SPD have launched an important joint political project to build a post-crisis social Europe with the publication of a major statement Building the good society: the project of the democratic left written by Jon Cruddas MP and Vice President of the German SPD Andrea Nahles MdB.


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    Should Britain now join the euro? asks George Irvin

    Thursday, December 18 2008
    Tags:
    banking | business | euro | Europe | jobs | markets

    Back in 2003 when Gordon Brown's five tests were being discussed, an excellent pamphlet by David Begg, Olivier Blanchard et al (2003) noted that sooner or later the pound would be squeezed between the mighty ‘tectonic plates' of the euro and the dollar. With sterling dropping through the €1 psychological barrier, it appears that the moment has come.