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<title><![CDATA[Wolfgang Munchau - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17662.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Wolfgang Munchau]]></description><category domain="17662">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Carney's EU Delusion]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2026/09/mark-carneys-eu-delusion/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wolfgang Munchau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest works of Central European literature is The Man Without Qualities. Set in the lead up to the First World War, Robert Musil'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unfinished novel depicts a society sleepwalking into catastrophe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Lawfare Won&rsquo;t Beat Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2025/06/lawfare-wont-beat-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wolfgang Munchau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberal Europeans hate Donald Trump. They also tend to misjudge him. I see this tendency particularly strongly represented in the media, where wishful thinking is the guiding principle. The media drew the wrong political conclusions about his criminal trials last year. Now they are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Trump Win the Tariff Wars?]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2025/04/will-trump-win-his-tariff-stand-off/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wolfgang Munchau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The international financial markets are the closest thing we have to a global consensus view on economics. And the wisdom of this crowd is usually greater than that of your average politician. More often than not, the crowd wins. In the UK, the financial markets sank Liz Truss without...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why President Trump Would Win a Tariff War]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trump-would-win-a-tariff-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wolfgang Munchau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you want to know how to respond to Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s trade tariffs, just think back to what happened between the EU and the UK after the Brexit referendum. The EU thought it could pressurise the UK either into reversing Brexit or accepting a bad deal. The EU, as the larger power,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China &amp; Its Allies Are Well Placed To Topple Dollar]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023/05/china-trading-allies-placed-topple-dollar-brazil-lula-da-silva-global-south</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wolfgang Munchau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After decades meting out sanctions and financial coercion, the US may soon feel its grip on world trade beginning to loosen.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Euro Is Near Death]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/07/original_sin</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wolfgang Munchau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The European debt crisis -- which saw its latest iteration inaugurated on Wednesday, April 6, when Portugal indicated it  would request an EU bailout -- has exposed every single lie, every fudge, and every  political, legal, and economic loophole that went into making the continent's ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Eurozone Insolvent?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7b62ac7c-6698-11df-aeb1-00144feab49a.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wolfgang Munchau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the eurozone insolvent?  In the past few weeks, we have all focused on the solvency of Greece,  Spain and Portugal. But we never seriously questioned the solvency of  those who actually guarantee all those southern European debts.The   first thing to note is that you cannot answer...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[EU Buys Time, Needs Real Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cdb9658a-5c0f-11df-95f9-00144feab49a.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wolfgang Munchau</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Greece is Europe's Subprime Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/47b429f4-5091-11df-bc86-00144feab49a.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wolfgang Munchau</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is going to be the most important  week in the 11-year history of Europe'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s monetary union. By the end of it  we will know whether the Greek fiscal crisis can be contained or whether it will metastasise to other parts of the  eurozone.By then, the International  Monetary Fund and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Danger in the Eurozone]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/06a45f2a-0118-11de-8f6e-000077b07658.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wolfgang Munchau</author>
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