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Why does the ECB hold a large foreign currency reserve?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-exchange_reserves
In addition to capital subscriptions, the NCBs of the member states
participating in the euro area provided the ECB with ...
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Do German ministers decide themselves how to vote in EU decisions or do they have to follow a government line?
Example/ background: The EU is currently discussing whether there should be a strict law against the sale of cars with a combustion engine starting in 2035. Volker Wissing (of the FDP party) is the ...
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Is membership in the European Parliament incompatible with membership in German district councils?
Inspired by another question:
According to European Parliament legislative resolution of 3 May 2022, Article 24.1:
The office of Member of the European Parliament shall be incompatible with the ...
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What are the benefits for strong economies like Germany and France for being members of the European Union?
Recently I was reading things on the European debt crisis. It seems to me that when there is a financial crisis, strong economies in EU, like Germany and France, are supposed to help the countries in ...
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How does the Polish court's rejection of EU law supremacy differ from Germany's seemingly similar action?
I'm not sure if this a 100% correct summary of what happened in Germany last year, but:
While the German Federal Constitutional Court has long reserved the power to reject EU actions that manifestly ...
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How high is the EU-ETS cap for Germany in 2021?
I'm not sure if I got the EU-ETS system for trading emission rights right. I think there is a limited amount of certificates issues by each country each year. The amount that is allowed to be issued ...
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Were there any intra-EU concerns expressed that Germany was practicing dumping prices on aluminium sheets?
Reuters reports on the new anti-dumping duties imposed by the Biden administration on aluminium sheets (worldwide):
The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday issued final anti-dumping duties on common ...
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Does Germany's Union have a significant Eurosceptic faction?
Do the CDU and CSU have a significant Eurosceptic faction (either hard or soft) which is represented at either grassroots or parliamentary level? Or is support for the European project so deeply ...
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Why has Germany not seen as many Islamist terror attacks as France, Italy or the UK?
The German intelligence agencies often complain, that they are ill-equipped to deal with terror attacks efficiently because they lack the legal authority to use certain surveillance methods.
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What conditions has Germany (or the EU as a whole) attached to the ESM loan offer that Italy is refusing?
It's been asserted in a couple of answers to another question that Germany (or the EU) has attached serious reform conditions to the ESM loans that Italy is refusing.
What conditions were these? (...
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Is the cap on rental prices in Berlin lower than the average price in some Eastern Europe capitals? If so, what justifies this level?
I could be wrong about this, but it seems to me that the 9.8 euros/sq.m. that appears to be recently imposed cap on rentals in Berlin is lower than the average rental price for housing in Prague 13 ...
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How can we apply the Bundestag election model to European elections? (model building)
I have looked into electoral systems and am trying to build a model of what the 2019 EU election would have looked like if it had used the Bundestag election system.
Disclaimer: I am fully aware ...
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Did German Reunification influence EU strategy?
I have been reading about German Reunification, and would like to know if this was used as a positive example, to justify further EU expansion and integration?
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, ...
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What's Hans-Olaf Henkel's position on the EU?
In a speech that was vociferously interrupted, MEP Hans-Olaf Henkel accused Juncker of being the "[Commission] president who lost Britain" and said that Junker's pinning of the blame on Cameron was "...
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Why is Germany not in the New Hanseatic League?
The Bad Weather Coalition, more formally known as the New Hanseatic League, is a group of EU member states Ireland, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, which are all “...
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