Blog post
28 November 2020
The scarring effect of COVID-19: youth unemployment in Europe
Even before the pandemic, youth unemployment in the European Union was three times higher than among the over-55s. COVID-19 threatens to undo the last
Covid-19
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Blog post
27 November 2020
Europe is losing competitiveness in global value chains while China surges
The European Union owes much of its economic weight to its regional value chain and integration into the global value chain. But the EU’s global value
Opinion piece
27 November 2020
Grading the big pandemic test
COVID-19 almost one year on, it is time to assess who passed the test, and who failed.
Podcast
25 November 2020
Steering the boat towards an unknown destination
Shocks pass, but change remains a constant. We need to start focusing on permanent changes in the economy and how to adapt to them.
External publication
19 November 2020
Euro area accession countries in the context of the pandemic
Testimony before the European Parliament on the subject of euro area accession.
External publication
19 November 2020
The evolution of European economic institutions during the COVID-19 crisis
This article discusses how the European institutions reacted and evolved during the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis in the first half of 2020.
External publication
12 November 2020
Monetary policy in the time of COVID-19, or how uncertainty is here to stay
The COVID-19 crisis has compounded the uncertainty that has come to characterise the European economy. We explore how this uncertainty manifests itsel
Event
05 November 2020
Conference on European Economic Integration
How can the CESEE region become more resilient to such painful shocks and expand its policy space to support recovery?
Event
29 October 2020
Disrupted medical supply chains: symptoms, side-effects, and treatment?
How can the EU increase the resilience of value chains in the health industry?
Policy brief
27 October 2020
European Union recovery funds: strings attached, but not tied up in knots
Ensuring effective recovery spending is a high-stakes challenge for the European Union, with the potential for derailment because of fuzzy objectives
Opinion piece
20 October 2020
The pandemic will structurally change the global economy more than we think
It is time to rethink many of the basic principles of our economic model to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
External publication
12 October 2020
What role for the European Semester in the recovery plan?
In this paper, the author looks at the implications arising from the focus of the Recovery and Resilience Plans in the context of the European Semeste
Blog post
29 September 2020
Government-guaranteed bank lending six months on
In March and April 2020, European governments announced massive credit support programmes. After an initial surge, take-up appears to be stabilising (
Policy brief
22 September 2020
Why has COVID-19 hit different European Union economies so differently?
All European Union countries are undergoing severe output losses as a consequence of COVID-19, but some have been hurt more than others. Factors poten
Opinion piece
15 September 2020
Without good governance, the EU borrowing mechanism to boost the recovery could fail
The European Union recovery fund could greatly increase the stability of the bloc and its monetary union. But the fund needs clearer objectives, susta
External publication
09 September 2020
Employment and COVID-19
Testimony before the Economic Affairs Committee at the House of Lords, British Parliament on Employment and COVID-19.