The impact of the digital euro on the financial system
My conversation with Fabio Panetta...
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How effective have COVID-19 credit support programmes been?
COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption to business. Since the first lockdowns, governments have used credit support programmes as the main instrument to mitigate the liquidity shock businesses have been facing. Hav...
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Aiming for zero Covid-19: Europe needs to take action
This opinion piece with nearly 30 signatories was originally published in de Volkskrant, Le Monde, Süddeutsche, La Repubblica, El Pais and Rzeczpospolita on the initiative of Miquel Oliu Barton and Bary Pradelski. by Yan...
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selected interviews on vaccination delays
In national public radio: (link) BBC (The inquiry): (link) Le temps Switzerland: (link) New York Times: (link and link) ...
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The geopolitics of the Green Deal podcast
The European Green Deal is a plan to decarbonise the EU economy by 2050, revolutionise the EU’s energy system, profoundly transform the economy and inspire efforts to combat climate change. But the plan will also have pr...
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The geopolitics of the European Green Deal
The Green Deal will redefine Europe’s global policy priorities; as such, it is a foreign policy development with profound geopolitical consequences. The pdf is here. A short version has been published in Foreign Affairs....
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Why has the EU been so slow to roll out a Covid vaccination programme?
This opinion piece was originally published on El País and the Guardian and Süddeutsche Zeitung Europe was not prepared for the pandemic, but it must now learn lessons and use all its financial and political resources. F...
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Where did the vaccine strategy go wrong?
One year since the pandemic began, widespread vaccination has finally started. It would be a mistake however to say the end is in sight. Senior fellows Uri Dadush and J. Scott Marcus join Bruegel director Guntram Wolff t...
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What do vaccination passports mean for Europe?
To the extent that vaccination against COVID-19 stops individuals infecting others, restrictions on vaccinated individuals’ rights should be lifted: fundamental freedoms should not be limited unnecessarily. Nevertheless,...
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Bloomberg interview on the risks of a delayed vaccination campaign in Europe and on the CDU chairmanship election
interview in minute 28 and later…....
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