The economies in the core countries have plenty of slack, as prices are barely rising.
For now, the euro zone's core countries are likely to do better than those on the periphery.
Italy and Spain sovereign yield curves rose 64 and 62 basis points respectively and core countries also widened sharply.
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Some proposals, such as unifying the core countries' criminal-justice systems, present huge challenges.
In the euro area, business activity declined to 46.7 from 46.9 in May, signaling weakness in both core and non-core countries.
Indecision has helped to spread the crisis from peripheral to core countries.
Core countries such as Germany fret they will lose a lever of influence over government policies in peripheral countries by handing over equity.
If it is not addressed, we could easily see the further spread of economic weakness to core countries, or even a debilitating liquidity crisis.
Yet interest rates are rising to meet the needs of the core countries, not falling or at minimum staying low for the needs of the peripheral ones.
Belgium is one of the core countries of Europe, a founding member of what became the EU. It is doing better than the southern nations of this continent.
Banks and voters in core countries (let alone Britain, whose position in a more integrated European banking system is very muddy) would be reluctant to insure peripheral deposits.
In other words, some believe a Greek exit could reinforce the rules required to maintain the stability of the euro by showing that the core countries are serious about their enforcement.
The head of the eurozone group of finance ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said there were no apparent signs of increased withdrawals of savings from peripheral to core countries in the region as a result of the Cyprus crisis.
And as you can see the desired, target, interest rates are very different for the peripheral countries (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain, the so called PIGS) than they are for the core countries (Belgium Holland, Germany, France etc).
What's more, a European fund would not have to be big enough to deal with simultaneous deposit runs across all of Europe but only with ones in the periphery, since money would presumably flow to banks in core countries such as Germany.
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Reports overnight said consumer and business confidence in the core EU countries dropped for the sixth straight month.
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If Napoleon had just settled down and focused on exploiting his core client countries he would likely have ruled for many more decades.
This proposal would not be acceptable to the core Eurozone countries.
One concerned the future shape of the Union, and whether an inner core of countries could race ahead to ever-tighter integration, perhaps even presaging a federal superstate.
The stable part of the Euro is really then Germany, Austria, Finland and the Netherlands - four "core" solvent countries.
Provisions to allow a core group of countries to forge a closer defence union, from which they might exclude others, are also meeting opposition from Finland, the central Europeans and the British.
EU. Attempts by diehards to forge a core group of countries that builds a United States of Europe would also founder because, outside Belgium and Luxembourg, there is no longer a serious appetite for a federal Europe.
Signals that the endless fumbling over Greece's second bail-out will end in debt restructuring prompted investor flight from core euro-zone countries as well as peripheral ones.
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This looks like a re-run of the discussion leading up to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, in which development groups angrily rejected any intellectual framing in which population growth in developing countries was identified as the core global problem.
The core of the problem is that the two countries are no longer equals.
EU, the authors split selected member countries into two groups: the core and the periphery.
There is also disturbing evidence that the weakness in the so-called periphery countries has spread to the 'core' - not just France, where the index reflecting new manufacturing orders fell to its lowest level since 2009, but also to Germany.
There are other strategies that could work, most notably relative deflation, or rather lower inflation in the periphery countries, higher inflation in the core, so that the relative costs and prices come into line but do so in the context of general inflation.
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