Strengthening EU competitiveness
Views and policy solutions on EU competitiveness.
- Publishing date
- 14 February 2024
In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Rebecca Christie sits down with Oya Celasun, Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund’s European Department, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Director of Bruegel, to talk about EU competitiveness. They define what the term means; discuss whether the EU has a competitiveness problem; and if so, how it can be fixed.
- Keyword
- eu governance
- Language
- English
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