Euro cash: 10th anniversary

Dear reader,

the new year is also an anniversary for the existence of the Euro bills & coins some media are honoring that occasion with some special reports:

Jan 03rd 2012 Euro Hits New Lows
Jan  01st 2012 The last secrets of the euro banknotes (ger)
Dec 31st 2011 Not so europhoric now: How the BBC has changed its tune after ten years of the single currency
Dec 31st 2011 Euro cash nears its 10th anniversary
Dec 31st 2011 No Fireworks for Euro as It Reaches 10-Year Mark

Dec 31st 2011 The rise and fall of the euro, ten years on

Dec 31st 2011 10 years of Euro (dut video)

Dec 31st 2011 10 years of Euro: No euphoria at anniversary day (ger)

Dec 31st 2011 The story of the Euro in numbers (dut)

Tobin tax for Europe (at least)

					Dear reader,
					one of the many subjects of the crisis approach by EU politicians is the introduction of a Tobin tax. Some players are vividly for its introduction  , some were first skeptical now seemingly not opposed to it anymore and Britain was estranged from continental Europe mainly because of such measures likely to be imposed by EU Commission & national political players.
					As the author here became confused himself who is for/ against/undecided it is time to present a compilation of latest developments on this tax on financial transactions.
					Germany:
Feb	28th	2012	#		Barry Eichengreen: Tobin tax is a mistake (FTD)
Jan	14th	2012	#		FTT: The Robin Hood tax #( FAZ)
Jan	13th	2012	#		Merkel doesn't want to enforce FTT against will of FDP coalition partner (AFP)
Jan	12th	2012	#		Preventing a relocation of financial activities (FDP)
Jan	10th	2012	#		Merkel takes Sarkozy more serious than FDP #(WSJDeutschland)
Dec	26th	2011	#		Schäuble pushes the gas throttle in struggle for Tobin tax (reuters)
Aug	20th	2011	#		FTT: Resistance against Merkel and Sarkozy (ftd.de)
					The Netherlands:
Jan	14th	2012	*		10% less pensions by European FTT (vno ncw)
Sep	29th	2011	*		Cabinet dislikes plan of Barroso completely (nuzakelijk)
					CPB: "Financial transaction tax not efficient"(translated version of RTLnieuws)
Oct	22nd	2011			Netherlands Supports Financial Transaction Tax, Rutte Says (Bloomberg)
					France:
Nov	15th	2012			Speculators Find Loopholes in French Transaction Tax (BBG)
Jan	14th	2012			France eyes all securities with Tobin tax (Reuters)
					France ready to go solo on financial transaction tax (France 24 )
			%		Sarkozy wants faster implementation of Tobin tax (Le Monde)
			#		G20 meeting: Sarkozy demands financial transaction tax (Frankfurter Rundschau)
			%		French financial sector against isolated initiative by Paris (France24)
	Apr 10th 2013				Tobin Tax is madness for Europe, and economic war against Britain
					Austria:
May	18th	2010			FTT: Government split (Wienerzeitung)
May	25th	2010	#		ÖVP (=conservatives) wants "FTT light" (DiePresse)
Sep	17th	2011	#		FTT invokes controversy  (Wirtschaftsblatt)
			#		(austrian finance minister) Fekter: "Hail Barroso's announcement of a FTT“ (Austrian government news summary)
					Italy:
					PDL says they would only support a Tobin Tax if adopted by all EU members. #Italy (via @AlbertoNardelli)
Jan	8th	2012	%		Italy open to a Tobin tax on European scale (TF1)
Jan	8th	2012			Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti: 'The euro is not in crisis' (Telegraph)
					EU:
Jan	9th	2012			Tobin tax 'could leave €116bn hole in EU finances', Ernst & Young warns (Telegraph)
Oct	3rd	2011			European politicians plot to block UK veto on 'Tobin tax'(Telegraph)
Dep	28th	2011			FTT: EU commission wants to tax financial transactions (Focus)
					UK:
					Subject: Tobin tax (Guardian )
					George Osborne attacks Tobin tax (Telegraph video)
Dec	6th	2011			Paddy Ashdown: We need a Tobin tax – but not to fill black holes (The Independent)
Jan	8th	2012			David Cameron: I will block EU financial transaction tax (Telegraph)
Jan	9th	2012			Tobin tax 'could leave €116bn hole in EU finances', Ernst & Young warns (Telegraph)
					Denmark:
Jan	10th	2012	#		Denmark also against EU wide Tobin tax. Also a topic at meeting Lagarde/Merkel (Deutschlandfunk )
					Sweden:
Jan	16th	2012			Ex-minister: financial transactions tax 'failed' (The local)
					other:
May	17th	2010	#		Attac: 270 bn Euro from financial transaction tax (Die Presse)
			#		Special reporting on FTT subject by diepresse.com
Oct	15th	2009	#		Sense and nonsense of FTT (Profil)
					#=german *=dutch %=french
					references for Tobin tax:
					The Tobin tax explained
				pdf	James Tobin in a prologue to the book: "The Tobin tax"

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Major Players

Dear reader,

in this section you will find some articles about "major players" of the Eurozone. A section for statements of central bankers is already online and now available material about politicians will be supplied. Main priority is to provide some info of how those "players" are thinking and how they are influenced by their past and their character.
As always don't expect everything to be available from the beginning, but this will also be a "growing knowledge base". So by checking in once in a while you will find more info stored here. Pretty much the same procedure as in the other blog entries were there are the sometimes very dynamic events of the Eurozone are being put into their fitting blog entry (file). Also nothing new is the fact that some valuable info is only available in other languages. But e.g Google translate often delivers some usable results and perhaps a few articles were translated here on this blog. (Of course there will be a link if that's the case)