Innovation, dissemination, investments: a new productivity strategy for Europe
Crisis measures to promote recovery in Europe must begin to address its underlying productivity challenge.
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Crisis measures to promote recovery in Europe must begin to address its underlying productivity challenge.

by Juan Menéndez-Valdés on
A mass online survey across the continent has found Europeans reeling from the coronavirus crisis—and losing trust in their leaders’ ability to manage it.

Efforts to attack multinationals’ tax avoidance at EU level fall foul of national beneficiaries. Time to try naming and shaming instead.

The coming economic emergency demands an emergency boost to demand, via an unconditional monthly payment for its duration.

by Andreas Antoniades on
Emergence from the coronavirus crisis cannot be to ‘business as usual’ but must urgently open a transition to socio-environmental sustainability.

by José Gusmão on
EU leaders must not behave like generals fighting the last war. If the Recovery Fund is to be adequate to the challenge of the coronavirus crisis, this time must be different.

by Daniele Archibugi on
Europe must look beyond keeping companies on life support and staunching national debts to a continent-wide reconstruction driven by public investment.

by John Weeks on
With ‘coronabonds’ stymied, an exit from the crisis had depended on ECB monetary operations—until the German constitutional court weighed in.

The easing of state-aid rules in the Covid-19 crisis has tilted the competitive playing-field away from those member states where Euro-disaffection is already growing.

by Meadhbh Bolger on
We must build back more resilient, just societies that consume within ecological limits.

by Jonathan Feldman on
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the need for transnational collaboration to produce socially useful goods—an idea aerospace workers in the UK hatched decades ago.

by Peter Bofinger on
Peter Bofinger argues that additional loans of inadequate amount do not add up to a rescue package which can save Europe from the coronavirus crisis.
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