
Recovery and Resilience: stop-gap or sea-change?
The Recovery and Resilience Facility could remain a one-off crisis measure—or point to a permanent EU fiscal arrangement.
The Recovery and Resilience Facility could remain a one-off crisis measure—or point to a permanent EU fiscal arrangement.
The good news is that unemployment has only risen modestly so far; the bad news is that hours worked have plummeted.
Europe needs to do more at federal level if a recovery plan is to be successful.
More monetary-policy easing is still a one-club approach—fiscal support is also needed at EU level.
In light of the eurozone and, now, climate crises, EU macroeconomic policy co-ordination needs a reboot.
The European Green Deal needs sustained political commitment, especially on ‘just transition’, if it is to realise its ambition.
The proxy media exchange between the French president and the leader of the German Christian democrats is a sign of an emergent European public sphere.
William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi (WM/TF) have written a piece that – under the presumptuous title of Everything You Know About Neoliberalism Is Wrong – offers a critique of
Those who wish to leave – so a German saying – you should not seek to dissuade from so doing. To few people is the
In 2013 Colin Crouch wrote a noted book entitled The strange non-death of neoliberalism. In it he discussed why neoliberalism had managed to avoid being killed
My IMK colleagues Christoph Paetz, Katja Rietzler and Achim Truger have just issued an important analysis of experience with the German Schuldenbremse (debt brake) since 2011. If you read
I recall many years ago discussing an industrial conflict with someone who is now a senior trade union leader. Sure I can get our people
A definition of chutzpah is murdering your parents and then claiming social benefits as an orphan. It is not widely recognised, but the IMF illustrates
The ECB has announced a further expansionary shift by beefing up a range of existing policy instruments. Barring unexpected positive shocks this will not be
Whatever else they might disagree about, just about everybody commenting on Europe agree about this: the succession of crises – financial, economic, fiscal, and now