The EU responds to the coronavirus: déjà vu all over again?
The European Union must manifest real solidarity in response to the coronavirus crisis. Muddling through will not do.
politics, economy and employment & labour

by Vivien Schmidt on
The European Union must manifest real solidarity in response to the coronavirus crisis. Muddling through will not do.

by Peter Bofinger on
Peter Bofinger argues MMT provides intellectual justification for a ‘whatever it takes’ fiscal response to potentially the biggest global postwar economic challenge

by Andrew Watt on
More monetary-policy easing is still a one-club approach—fiscal support is also needed at EU level.

by Javier López on
The coronavirus crisis has exposed the shared vulnerability of Europe’s interdependence. Time to turn that into a strength.

by Jayati Ghosh on
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.

The spread of Covid-19 has called into question—once again—the frailties of the European Union.

To prevent the coronavirus shock to demand precipitating a long-lasting depression, government needs to become short-term payer of last resort.

by Lucrezia Reichlin on
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.

by Karin Pettersson on
Karin Pettersson writes that the pandemic has highlighted the frailties of a short-sighted and hyper-individualistic social system.

by Michal Rotem on
The coronavirus is not a natural disaster but the outcome of a system of agriculture subordinating animal, and human, welfare.

by Joseph Stiglitz on
For 40 years, US Republicans have been insisting that ‘government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem’. The bankruptcy of this has been laid bare.

by Simon Wren-Lewis on
The human effects of the coronavirus are paramount. But what will be its impact on a medium-sized economy such as that of the UK?
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