Demography and globalisation: reversing trends
A conversation on ageing societies, waning inequality, as well as an inflation revival. In this episode of The Sound of Economics, we invite Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan to talk about their most recent book: ‘...
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The future of EU-UK relations (again!)
On 15-16 October the European Council will take stock of the implementation of the withdrawal agreement and review the state of the negotiations on the future EU-UK partnership. Leaders will discuss preparatory work for ...
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For the euro there is no shortcut to becoming a dominant currency
When created two decades ago, the euro immediately became the world’s second most important currency. But it has remained a distant second to the US dollar. Its internationalisation peaked in 2005 and went into reverse w...
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What should Europe expect from American trade policy after the election?
A Joe Biden Administration would have to decide to what extent to unpick the major United States trade policy shifts of the last four years. A quick return to comprehensive trade talks with the European Union is unlikely...
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Without good governance EU recovery could fail
My conversation with Luis Garicano. More podcasts with leading MEPs are in the making. The European Union recovery fund could greatly increase the stability of the bloc and its monetary union. But the fund needs clearer ...
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L’IA a besoin d’humains qualifiés
This opinion post was originally published in Les Echos. L’adoption des technologies IA repose moins sur des scientifiques de haut niveau que sur des spécialistes des données et des programmeurs compétents qui peuv...
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Global energy fundamentals
I sat down with Simone Tagliapietra in our latest podcast to discuss his book....
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