Summer series: Economics of European sovereignty
Guest in Mark Leonard’s World in 30 minutes...
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Europe should avoid a no-deal Brexit
This opinion piece was published in various newspapers across Europe (FAZ, Le Figaro, Le Soir, Corriere dela Serra, the Times, NRC, Il Mundo). The authors are not responsible for the titles chosen by those newspapers. Al...
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A Brexit deal is still not achieved
The UK paper should be seriously considered. While it breaks a number of European red-lines, it is also an attempt to solve some issues. The question is whether the EU will be ready to seriously negotiate. Geo-strategic ...
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The drama of the EU and the euro area
I discuss with Ashoka Mody, visiting professor in international economic policy at Princeton University his latest book “Euro tragedy: a drama in nine acts”. We talk about the legacy of Helmut Kohl, the role...
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Making Italy grow again
This opinion piece was published in Corriere Della Sera and Bruegel. The coalition agreement signed in May between the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League foresees new large spending items – most notably the flat tax...
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Die Unternehmensteuer muss reformiert werden
Der deutsche Kapitalstock schrumpft. Das liegt zum einen an sinkenden Investitionen von Unternehmen. Eine Reform der Unternehmensteuer könnte helfen. This opinion piece was published in Handelsblatt. Deutschland benötigt...
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Griechenland braucht einen Neuanfang
This was first published by Die Zeit. Acht Jahre nach Beginn des ersten Hilfsprogramms für Griechenland ist es soweit – Griechenland soll wieder auf eigenen Füßen stehen. Die Eurogruppe soll heute das Ende des dri...
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Understanding (the lack of) German public investment
An array of data suggests that there is a general lack of investment by all branches of the German government, despite running budget surpluses for several years. This blog post plots the progression of the public invest...
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European banking union package of Meseberg very weak
my interview with Bloomberg TV in Sintra 2018....
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Is the European Semester effective and useful?
We study whether and to what extent EU countries implement recommendations on macroeconomic imbalances given by the EU in the so-called European Semester. Overall implementation of recommendations by EU countries has wor...
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