Gabriele de Angelis, author at Social Europe

Not (yet) up to the task: how eurozone members are gambling away post-Covid economic recovery

The Eurogroup needed a highest-common-factor agreement to match the coronavirus crisis but intergovernmentalism left it with the lowest common denominator.

Finally a eurozone budget, probably the wrong one

Gabriele de Angelis

A eurozone budget is an idea whose time, at last, may have come. But what is on the table contains familiar flaws.

Growing Eurozone Inequality And What To Do About It

Gabriele de Angelis

Growing inequality between eurozone members is one of the least welcome legacies of the euro- and sovereign debt crisis. The idea that the less well-off

Renewing Franco-German Axis: Challenges For Eurozone Reform

Gabriele de Angelis

If approved, the results of the agreement in principle (German text here) on the renewal of the Grand Coalition in Germany could be an important

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