How Digitalization of the Workforce Will Impact Europe’s Social Protection Systems
I wrote a post summarizing a recent report of Bruegel for the Mastercard Centre for inclusive growth....
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From Derrida to Trump – a book review
My book review for El Pais. The death of truth – notes on falsehood in the age of Trump” by Michiko Kakutani is a lucid account of how Western societies are losing their consensus on what is true and what is false – with...
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The EU needs a bold climate strategy
This article was originally published in The Nikkei Veritas, Caixin, Rzeczpospolita and Ta Nea In order to avert catastrophic climate change for the entire human population, global temperature increases must be limited t...
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A stronger EU legal framework is not enough to foster national compliance
In 2011, the EU introduced stricter rules to monitor the implementation of country-specific policy recommendations. Using a new dataset, this column investigates whether these new laws have increased national compliance....
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Germany’s even larger than expected fiscal surpluses: Is there a link with the constitutional debt brake?
Germany is having a political debate on the adjustment of its budgetary plans due to revised forecasts, and an academic debate on the debt brake. Yet, since 2011, general government revenues and surpluses have been syste...
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Life after the multilateral trading system
This article was published by Nikkei Veritas, Caixin, LeMonde, Handelsblatt and Corriere. The China-US trade talks, crucial as they are, divert attention from the main event: the World Trade Organization, the essential i...
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What can the EU do to keep its firms globally relevant?
This opinion piece was published on Berlin Policy Journal and versions of it are published in Le Monde, La Repubblica, Handelsblatt (pdf), El Pais, Hospodarske Noviny and Capital.bg. Big is beautiful – so the claim of ma...
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What does a possible no-deal Brexit mean?
This opinion piece was published in Caixin, Nikkei Veritas and Expansion. On March 29 2019, two years will have passed since the United Kingdom has notified the EU of its intention to withdraw from the European Union. A...
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Schicksalsjahr für Europa
My opinion piece in Handelsblatt with Marcel Fratzscher and Daniela Schwarzer....
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Providing funding in resolution: Unfinished business even after Eurogroup agreement on EMU reform
The recent Eurogroup agreement on euro-area reform foresees a greater role for the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) as a backstop to the banking union. This is a welcome step forward but important issues remain. We ass...
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