Ten years of financial crisis – what have we learnt?

The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.

Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks).At the beginning of August 2007 the US real estate bubble burst, bringing banks across the world to their knees. A year later the financial crisis came to a head when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.

Commentators in European news and other sources look back at ten years of crisis policy for the countries of Europe, the eurozone and the EU.

ESO: Key Source: The Euro Crisis http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-euro-crisis-key-sources/

CityAM, 07.08.17: The global financial crisis 10 years on: A timeline of the global events that shaped the crash from the credit crunch to the recession and beyond http://www.cityam.com/269810/global-financial-crisis-10-years-timeline-global-events

The Guardian, 03.08.17: The day the credit crunch began, 10 years on: 'the world changed' https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/02/day-credit-crunch-began-10-years-on-world-changed

BBC News, 05.08.17: The great crash - 10 years on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40837763

CAPX, 09.08.17: Ten years ago today, the world changed https://capx.co/ten-years-ago-today-the-world-changed/

http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html

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