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panoply

To fill this institutional lacuna, the Maastricht Treaty and its successor treaties created a panoply of non-credible rules to constrain states.

—p.136 The One That Got Away (123) by Yanis Varoufakis
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lacuna

To fill this institutional lacuna, the Maastricht Treaty and its successor treaties created a panoply of non-credible rules to constrain states.

—p.136 The One That Got Away (123) by Yanis Varoufakis
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planification

the European Union remained capable of promoting planification, code for looking after large French companies through bailouts

defined in endnote 5 on p270 as French large-scale planning

—p.134 The One That Got Away (123) by Yanis Varoufakis
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bulwark

Lamont thus inherited Britain's place in the EMS-ERM fixed exchange system and tried to make the best of it, seeing it also as a bulwark for pushing down Britain's inflation rate

—p.125 The One That Got Away (123) by Yanis Varoufakis
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exigent

put under pressure by the exigencies of its most powerful social groups

—p.123 The One That Got Away (123) by Yanis Varoufakis
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