L. Bini Smaghi: Is the ECB at risk of becoming an underachiever?

Over the past eight years the European Central Bank has systematically failed to achieve its primary objective of price ...

January 10, 2020

C. Bastasin: German political earthquake may have consequences on the banking union and the ESM

A change of leadership in the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the junior partner in the German coalition government, may ...

November 28, 2019

L. Codogno – The fiscal stimulus that is not: why there is no fiscal expansion in sight for the eurozone

As in Peter Pan’s fictional island of Neverland, people in Euroland refuse to grow up and face reality. The “never-n...

November 13, 2019

C. Bastasin: The strange reasons why Europe will have a “Golden Rule” in 2020

As recently as the beginning of 2018, the International Monetary Fund issued one of its most upbeat economic forecasts i...

October 23, 2019

L. Carpentieri, S. Micossi, P. Parascandolo: Overhauling corporate taxation in the digital economy

Is the corporate income tax (CIT) still an efficient system for taxing companies today? The CIT was introduced when econ...

October 22, 2019

P. C. Padoan: Public Debt Reduction in Uncertain Times – With a View to Europe

We live in uncertain times both economically – growth remains weak, especially in the fundamentals – and in ...

September 16, 2019

S. Micossi: A new drive for the Capital Markets Union

For two decades, the lack of private investment has been one of Europe’s biggest economic weaknesses, undermining prod...

September 13, 2019

M. Messori: The potentials and the dangers of the Italian economy in a renewed euro area

Overcoming the political and institutional tensions that have characterized Italy in the last fourteen months opens up n...

September 12, 2019

A. Franconi: Mini-Bot: Ingenuity or Ignorance

With the infringement procedure launched by the European Union against Italy in December 2017 (not to be confused with t...

September 6, 2019

Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the Hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament – November 28

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November 29, 2022

European Commission – Building an economic governance framework fit for the challenges ahead, November 9

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November 21, 2022

Monetary policy in a new environment – Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the European Banking Congress, November 18

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November 21, 2022

Statement by Commission President von der Leyen at the G20 Summit session on food and energy security, November 15

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November 16, 2022

ECB Financial Stability Review, November 2022

The Financial Stability Review provides an overview of potential risks to financial stability in the euro area. It aims ...

November 16, 2022

COP27: EU calls on all Parties to take concrete steps to limit global warming to 1.5°C and respect the Paris Agreement – November 4

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November 9, 2022

Monetary policy in a high inflation environment: commitment and clarity – Lecture by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, organised by Eesti Pank and dedicated to Professor Ragnar Nurkse – November 4

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November 7, 2022

Opening remarks by European Commission Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis at the press conference of the informal Foreign Affairs Council on Trade – October 31

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October 31, 2022

ECB Press Conference – October 27

President Christine Lagarde and Vice-President Luis de Guindos explained the Governing Council’s latest monetary polic...

October 31, 2022