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Patrick Kaczmarczyk

Patrick Kaczmarczyk works as a policy consultant for the Economic Forum of the SPD in Germany. Previously, he worked as a consultant for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. (Views expressed are his own.)

Using common strengths to overcome the crisis

Patrick Kaczmarczyk and Klaus Seipp

Europe needs to move from fear of the ‘moral hazard’ of fiscal co-operation to confidence in its collective benefits.

It is the ECB’s job to close spreads

Patrick Kaczmarczyk

Spreads in a single market with a single currency distort trade flows and competitiveness. The European Central Bank should close them.