Sweden - Riksbank: Repo rate cut & economic outlook 2013 - 2015

Repo rate cut 0.25 percentage points to 1.0 per cent (Riksbank, Dec 18th 2012)

Sweden, Turkey, Hungary Cut Interest Rates (WSJ, ec 18th 2012)(via @gmaujean)

Deutsche Bundesbank joins Twitter and starts tweeting

Dear reader,

the German central bank - Deutsche Bundesbank - joined Twitter some month ago, but so far this Twitter handle remained silent.

Apparently on December 12th 2012 they started to tweet.
Their initial two tweets explained in English and German what they intend to tweet in future.

Here is the English version: Press notice: Bundesbank on Twitter (bundesbank.de, Dec 12th 2012)


Follow @bundesbank

The crisis 2010 - 2012 from Angela Merkel's perspective

This is another documentary showing the events starting Spring 2010 when Greece's PM Papandreou asked for help. All events told from the German perspective.

Interviews with: Ottmar Issing (fmr BuBa), Wolfgang Schäuble, Peer Steinbrück (SPD), Andrew Bosomworth (Pimco), Nikos Dimou (Greece), Jörg Asmussen (ECB), Jens Weidmann (BuBa), Peter Gauweiler (CSU), Michael Fuchs (CDU), A. Tsipras (Syriza,Greece)

Video featuring: A. Merkel, G. Papandreou, N. Sarkozy, M. Monti, A. Samaras

Was macht Merkel (public TV:ARD,Videostream, German language, 45minutes)