Publication
FT.com Economists' Forum: How the EU Could Stop the Global Crisis Becoming a European Problem
by André Sapir on 22 August 2009
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Filed in: OPINION PIECES AND COLUMNS
Topics: Budgetary and monetary policies, Financial markets and regulation, European and global governance , New Member States, Enlargement and Neighbourhood
Resident Scholar André Sapir argues that organizational problems in Europe may cause the crisis to deepen within the EU. He says that four major issues must be tackled in the near future: banking regulation and supervision; global governance issues dealing with the G20; the economic situation of new member states outside the euro area; and the EU institutions' response mechanisms.