Europe’s ‘long-Covid’ economic frailty
Last year’s agreement on an EU recovery package was widely celebrated. This year its inadequacy will sink in.
politics, economy and employment & labour
Adam Tooze is professor of history at Columbia University and author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.
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Last year’s agreement on an EU recovery package was widely celebrated. This year its inadequacy will sink in.
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Adam Tooze argues that the frail eurozone recovery hinges entirely on its guarantee by the European Central Bank.
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Adam Tooze assesses the significance of China’s goal-setting for climate neutrality.
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Adam Tooze argues that worrying about the euro exchange rate and a non-existent inflation enemy in Europe must give way to fiscal and monetary demand boosts.
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Adam Tooze argues the European Green Deal and young Europeans’ activism are fostering a virtuous circle favouring more rapid decarbonisation.
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As another sovereign-debt crisis looms, Adam Tooze warns against repeating the mistake of delegating to anonymised ‘markets’ accountable political choices.
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The Eurogroup’s decision to reject corona bonds will leave destabilising political scars.
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There has been little honest reflection within the European Commission about the eurozone crisis. Until now.
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Adam Tooze stresses that the critical COP26 conference later this year hinges on European unity and radical leadership.
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Adam Tooze dissects how the macroeconomic policy discourse is disabling necessary German, and European, steps forward.
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Much was expected of the new climate package negotiated by the grand-coalition government in Berlin. Less was delivered.
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Europe must get beyond seeing the head of the IMF as part of the spoils from Bretton Woods.
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The eurozone muddled through its crisis at Germany’s behest. The climate emergency is much too serious for that.
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Adam Tooze explains how a false exactitude in economics has led to a terrible politics in the EU.
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The eurozone remains mired in unemployment while the European Central Bank targets only inflation. Adam Tooze begins a series of Social Europe columns by explaining the hidden history of the Fed’s more successful dual mandate. In January 2013 the US Federal Reserve made a remarkable statement. It announced that it would ramp up its monetary […]
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