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'What do we do with the cheap credit? What has been the impact of a decade of quantitative easing? It has hardly led to the green industrial revolution that we badly needed.'

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The opportunistic peace

I think I can consider myself a European patriot, but I doubt whether this is still the Europe I want to fight for. I doubt even whether this Europe is ready to fight for its future and often think that it prevents countries from waking up to the formidable challenges.

This Europe has become a haze, an ephemeral castle of values that are not defended, of pompous statements that are not put into practice.

It has become a facade of clever slogans and speeches, behind which a gener...

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'What do we do with the cheap credit? What has been the impact of a decade of quantitative easing? It has hardly led to the green industrial revolution that we badly needed.'

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Jonathan Holslag teaches international politics at the Free University of Brussels.

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