PhD, University of Bonn. Formerly with the European Commission and Deutsche Bundesbank. Taught at the universities of Pittsburgh and Brussels. Currently, Director, Bruegel. Member, French prime minister's Conseil d'Analyse Economique. Regularly testifies before the European Finance Ministers' ECOFIN meeting, the European Parliament and national parliaments. Research focuses on the European economy and governance, on fiscal and monetary policy, and on global finance.
The coalition agreement signed in May between the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League foresees new large spending items – most notably the flat tax, a pension reform, and some form of...
Critics have called the EU-Turkey deal on refugees immoral or even illegal, but it is an improvement on the status quo, which risked a humanitarian disaster in Greece and a collapse of no...
Traditional macroeconomic policies have been important in stabilizing the global economy, but they are no longer enough to addressing the fragility and low growth of the current economic ...
The President of the ECB Mario Draghi has been clear, both at the last press conference and in front of the European Parliament on February 15, that the ECB is determined to achieve its p...
First, about 1.7 million people in the Schengen area earn their salary in a different country to where they live. These people would be directly affected by the reintroduction of border c...
The refugee crisis has dominated the headlines in recent months, with current estimates suggesting that there are still up to 4,000 people arriving in the EU every day. This would result ...
