Giles Cadman

by Giles Cadman The Eurozone crisis, and the huge unemployment that the crisis has bought has changed the views of Eurozone voters on Europe. Europeans have never been wild about the European Union. With the region sapped by the euro crisis, confidence in the institution and the benefits it was supposed to provide is flagging faster […]

by Giles Cadman The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, wants Britain’s offshore tax havens to do more to crack down on illegal tax evasion. This position is a reasonable one for Mr Osborne to take, but it does seem a little naive to expect this to be a silver bullet. Under a pilot project […]

by Giles Cadman The BBC’s Europe Editor, Gavin Hewitt, has a very good article on the rise of Euroskpetic and  anti-establishment parties across Europe. It is not just in Britain where the United Kingdom Independence Party has made solid gains, and looks to be in a position of strength for the 2014 Euro elections. Recession […]

by Giles Cadman The Eurocrats and the governments of Eurozone nations have assumed that the Euro can survive the current crisis. This is based on financial calculations, and appears to have little regard for democracy. Voters living in countries with massive unemployment and voters living in wealthier nations having to fund impoverished ones will repeatedly […]

by Giles Cadman The Euro crisis has meant that even those who were instrumental in launching the single currency are saying that it is not viable. Oskar Lafontaine, the German finance minister who launched the euro, has called for a break-up of the single currency to let southern Europe recover, warning that the current course […]

by Giles Cadman Russia is not known for its wines so I was surprised to find an article in the Telegraph discussing Russia’s premium wines. Big volume production in Russia is in the low to medium-priced wines, but there is an ever-growing focus on the premium end. To succeed in this competitive sector, investment was […]

by Giles Cadman France is a mess, with a crazy Socialist government introducing ideologically driven laws that have helped kill off growth in the French economy. France was suffering badly after decades of economic mismanagement before the Socialists intervention. Now in what looks like an attempt to create a good news story the Elysee Palace […]

by Giles Cadman Financial Transaction Taxes have been the cherished dream of left wingers for decades, since Nobel Laurette James Tobin suggested it over 40 years ago. The loosely named Tobin Tax has been an abject failure when it has been applied. Sweden introduced a tax in 1984, and it was an abject failure. The […]

by Giles Cadman Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson is about to buy a winery in the south of France according to the Daily Mail. ‘Alex has longed to get into wine production for quite a while,’ said a United insider of the manager who is known to share wine with his opposite number after […]

by Giles Cadman The Eurozone has a been a massive disaster for huge numbers of people, with the straight jacket of the single currency wrecking economies in the south. Spain has suffered terribly, and now has more than one in four or six million people unemployed. Spain’s persistent rise in unemployment reached new heights over […]