Rebooting Europe: a framework for post COVID-19 economic recovery
COVID-19 has triggered a severe recession and policymakers in European Union countries are providing generous, largely indiscriminate, support to comp
- Publishing date
- 15 May 2020
In this episode we discuss the proposal for a recovery plan outlined in a recent paper by Julia Andersson, Simone Tagliapietra and Guntram Wolff which can be read here https://bruegel.org/2020/05/rebooting-europe-a-framework-for-a-post-covid-19-economic-recovery/
Participating to this episode:
Maria Demertzis, Deputy Director, Bruegel
Giuseppe Porcaro, Head of Outreach and Governance, Bruegel
Simone Tagliapietra, Research Fellow, Bruegel
Guntram Wolff, Director, Bruegel
- Keyword
- welfare policy tax policy monetary policy fiscal policy Covid-19 capital markets banking union
- Language
- English
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