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Bronwen Maddox appointed editor and chief executive of Prospect magazine (27 October 2010)
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“Bronwen Maddox’s column on international policy in The Times is essential reading. Unlike many such columns that are written by men who rarely if ever read a foreign paper or have lived and worked abroad, Maddox’s column is infused with knowledge, research and balance.”
- Denis MacShane, The Times
ARTICLES, BROADCASTS AND SPEECHES
TELEVISION APPEARANCES
Bronwen Maddox most recently appeared on CNN on November 21st 2011;
On the Euro Crisis
21 November 2011
CNN's Fareed Zakaria discusses the euro crisis with Bronwen Maddox, David Miliband & Martin Wolf.
On Economic lessons the US can take from the UK
21 November 2011
CNN's Fareed Zakaria and panel, Bronwen Maddox, David Miliband & Wolf, discuss economic lessons the U.S. can take from the UK.
TIMES COLUMNS AND REPORTS
Bronwen Maddox is a regular writer on foreign affairs for The Times, and writes the paper's Economic View column every fortnight. She has become one of the best-known voices in British journalism.
• Read Bronwen’s recent columns in The Times:
Hope flickers in the dark (Subscription Only)
27 June 2011
"The lights are dim in the corridors of Japan's government ministries to save electricit, and the towering walls of neon in the Akihabara electronics district have dark gaps in their facades. But three months after the tsunami of March 11 - which Japan refers to as its "3/11" - the country has managed a significant recovery...read more"
Doha-lite does have value (Subscription Only)
6 June 2011
"It might seem odd to see progress amid the wreckage of the Doha trade talks, which have been going on for a decade without resolution and now face a version of collapse. But a decade of agrument has teased out a few stands of agreement. It is just possible that those can be woven together in a "Doha-lite" deal in December...read more"
Time for a tough outsider (Subscription Only)
23 May 2011
"It is not too late to appoint Tharman Shanmugaratnam as the next head of the International Monetary Fund. The Finance Minister of Singapore would bring an important toughness, and sense of perspective, to the eurozone crisis, and a reminder that the fund's money will increasingly come from Asia...read more"
What now for Amercia? (Subscription Only)
09 May 2011
"The cost of pursuing Osama bin Laden has been immense for the United States. The two wars that followed the 9/11 attacks added significantly to the US national debt. Even more serious, the decade of preoccupation with Islamic terrorism was a distraction from other pressing challenges confronting America...read more"
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BROADCASTS, ARTICLES and SPEEECHES
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For Prospect Magazine
How the Greeks broke Europe
24 May 2010
On Friday 14th May, Greeks read in their newspapers a list of 151 doctors alleged to have declared improbably low income to avoid tax. “The ‘poor’ doctors of Kolonaki,” jeered the front page of Ethnos, referring to the exclusive Athens district overlooking the Acropolis. “Tax-dodging doctors named and shamed,” said Kathimerini, adding that the finance ministry had found 57 who failed to issue receipts or record patient visits (and one who declared income of just €300 a year). Fourteen have been fined a total of €44.3m (£3.7m); four will also face criminal charges.
The ministry, which is raiding doctors’ and lawyers’ offices across Athens, has turned to Google Earth to scan the summer villas in Kifissia, the affluent Athens suburb, to count the swimming pools which tax inspectors use as an indication of wealth. If the government of Prime Minister George Papandreou keeps up the pressure, then it will go some way to calm fears that Greece is bankrupt and unreformable. The crackdown “is, I believe, an essential element of catharsis,” said Loukas Tsoukalis, a professor at Athens University and adviser to José Manuel Barroso, European commission president. “If Greeks see that the right people are punished, they are more likely to perceive the austerity programme as fair.”
If the crisis had been limited to Greece, it would already be over. Greece is tiny, its economy only 3 per cent of the EU. But just as the world appeared to be clawing its way out of financial turmoil and recession, Greece reminded the markets that countries, as well as banks, can go bust. “Lehman Brothers surrounded by turquoise water,” was one description. “Contagion,” that laconic metaphor of the markets, hardly captures the speed with which fears of insolvency spread along the rim of Europe, to Portugal, Spain, Italy, then Ireland and even Britain. For one climactic weekend in May, the race to put together the gargantuan rescue deal of €750bn (£640bn) commanded the urgent aattention of all the leaders of the EU, President Barack Obama and the IMF.
The bailout has saved the euro for now, although the currency has reached an 18-month low against the dollar. But it has torn up the rules by which the European Central Bank (ECB) runs the bloc of 16 countries which use the euro. (The bank reluctantly agreed to start buying eurozone bonds, even though that might trigger inflation and expose the ECB to big losses if Greece does write off part of its debt.) The crisis has also shattered the principle that eurozone countries should not be bailed out by others. Moreover, it has sharply divided France and Germany, who have been on opposite sides of the argument throughout the crisis, left Germany in rare isolation within the EU and even raised questions in Berlin about its own longer-term participation in the currency.
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For BBC RADIO 4
Small States
(broadcast 12 Oct. 2009)
Tiny states like Liechtenstein, Brunei and Monaco give hope to independence movements elsewhere that size does not matter. Bronwen Maddox asks if the world's smallest countries are quite as independent as they appear and examines the difficulties of being small but truly sovereign.
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A New Iraq?
(broadcast 21 June 2009)
As British forces complete their withdrawal from Iraq and the government declares the mission a success, Bronwen Maddox considers the prospects of lasting peace for the Iraqi people. Have lessons been learnt that will change the way in which similar missions are tackled in the future?
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