The challenging need for common unemployment insurance in EU
“The strain which sprang from unemployment might induce foreign tension”, said Karl Polanyi in 1944. Despite a modest recovery, the...
Brexit, Italy, Migrants... solutions to be found by Europe, for Europe
Brexit, migrations and negotiations The complexity of having more than one currency in the EU may now come to undermine the single market...
2016 : A CHANGING LANDSCAPE – OIL AND REFUGEES: ASSESSING COSTS AND BENEFITS
The uncertain implications of the oil price decline The price of oil has dropped below $30 a barrel reaching its lowest since 2003. To...
Is 2016 the year of doom and gloom?
The eurozone coping with a vacillating global economy: China, oil prices and inflation After several months of relative calm, the global...
PROVIDING FURTHER ECONOMIC LEGITIMACY TO THE CLIMATE CHANGE CONSENSUS
COP21: A diplomatic success—no binding commitments or carbon pricing. The COP21 Paris Agreement includes (i) an objective to limiting the...
What monetary policy for a weak and uneven recovery?
Is the ECB reaching the limits of its tools? The ECB announced further monetary stimulus but disappointed markets (see Mario Draghi’s...
Whatever it takes
The European QE: whatever it takes to succeed The ECB will do all it must to raise inflation to the target rate (see Mario Draghi’s...
European economic issues and Paris attacks... any consequences to fear?
Seeking consensus on European economic issues… Economists at Vox EU are seeking to form a “consensus narrative” about the origins of the...
Where are we on Secular Stagnation?
Secular stagnation has been at the heart of economic debates since Larry Summers revived the theory in 2013 (see Is Secular Stagnation...
BlogSpot – Brexit: Is European Political integration a pipe dream?
“Brexit” Proposals: Another rumbling in a slowly decaying EU “A live-and-let-live Europe, a flexible Europe”: Cameron’s proposals—From...
