A Social-Green Deal, with just transition—the European answer to the coronavirus crisis
Concluding the Social Europe series on ‘just transition’, Maja Göpel zooms out to elaborate the shift in narrative entailed.
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Reforming Europe’s fiscal rules
Why do the Maastricht criteria compare budget deficits and public debt with GDP rather than budget revenues? That’s a good question.
Coronavirus crisis: now is the hour of Modern Monetary Theory
Peter Bofinger argues MMT provides intellectual justification for a ‘whatever it takes’ fiscal response to potentially the biggest global postwar economic challenge
Welcome but inadequate: European measures to counter the corona crisis
More monetary-policy easing is still a one-club approach—fiscal support is also needed at EU level.
Europe under quarantine
The coronavirus crisis has exposed the shared vulnerability of Europe’s interdependence. Time to turn that into a strength.
The Covid-19 debt deluge
The Covid-19 crisis may have set the stage for a debt meltdown long in the making, starting in the Asian economies on the front lines.
Covid-19 is an opportunity for Europe
The EU has always advanced on the back of crises. The Covid-19 outbreak represents a chance to pools resources towards a co-ordinated fiscal policy.
Preventing the next virus outbreak
The coronavirus is not a natural disaster but the outcome of a system of agriculture subordinating animal, and human, welfare.
Hard truths about the eurozone crisis
There has been little honest reflection within the European Commission about the eurozone crisis. Until now.
A European Union climate agenda for COP26
The EU should bring a new climate agenda to Glasgow—including a roadmap for emerging nations to embrace a future beyond fossil fuels.
Brexit and the risks of economic nationalism
In talking about their future relationship with the UK, EU leaders may want to mind their language.
‘Fridays for Keynesianism’
Keynes recognised the key role of the financial system in modern capitalist economies and Peter Bofinger argues the 2008 crisis must bring the demise of neoclassical economics—which still doesn’t.
Freeports: Johnson should look elsewhere for growth enhancements
Freeports may epitomise the Brexiters’ ‘global Britain’ but the UK economy performs too poorly for these to be more than luxury entrepôts.
A just transition must help those struggling to heat their homes
In the latest contribution to our series on ‘just transition’, Monique Goyens argues that it must address the people finding it hard to pay their energy bills.
Limited liability is causing unlimited harm
The purpose of limited-liability protection was to encourage investment in corporations, yet it has evolved into a source of systemic market failure.
Europe needs a strong macroeconomic policy core—but not a Six (or Two) Pack
In light of the eurozone and, now, climate crises, EU macroeconomic policy co-ordination needs a reboot.