A l’approche des élections européennes de mai 2014, la sortie de l’euro est parfois présentée comme un remède miracle.

The decline in investment rates in the euro area following the global financial crisis has been sharp. And it looks as though it will not reverse significantly. Rebooting investment and channeling investable funds to the right places on the continent is therefore a major challenge for policy makers.

Les indices de prix à la consommation ont fortement ralenti ces dernières années. À 0,8-1 %, l'inflation est nettement en-dessous de l’objectif à moyen terme de la BCE, de 2 %.

Strikingly, the debate about the Feb 7 ruling of the German Constitutional Court against the ECB’s flagship OMT programme has gone almost unnoticed in France. This is wrong. The French should care about it.