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December 1, 2014
Daniel Gros, "The Juncker Plan: from €21 to €315 billion, through smoke and mirrors"

What is the precise problem to be solved by the ‘Juncker plan’? It is the ‘investment gap’, which is estimated by the European Commission to be around €300 billion. On the face of it, the €315 billion euro announced by Juncker as additional...
November 25, 2014
Stefano Micossi, “Removing obstacles to innovation: Europe vs. the US”, Bruxelles, 21 novembre 2014
November 23, 2014
The letter from Italy's Minister of Economy and Finance Pier Carlo Padoan Dombrovskis and Moscovici

Download the letter at the following link.
November 18, 2014
The letter of Juncker and Timmermans to Renzi and Schulz

In a letter addressed to Matteo Renzi, President of the Council of the European Union and Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission and Frans...
November 14, 2014
A silver bullet for the ECB

The European Quantitative Easing Intermediated Programme (EQUIP) A proposal by Carlo Bastasin, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Marcello Messori, Stefano Micossi, Franco Passacantando, Fabrizio Saccomanni and Gianni Toniolo The ECB’s dilemma
November 14, 2014
La sfiducia reciproca blocca l’Europa

(di Stefano Micossi, SEP)
November 14, 2014
How Germany Debates TTIP

As one of the world’s leading trading nations and Europe’s largest economy, many expected Germany to lead the charge among European countries in favor of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). To some surprise, however, the...
November 5, 2014
M.Messori, P.Canofari, "Deflation in the EMU"

The inflation rate in the EMU has been close to the ECB target level over the period from 2000 to 2007. Instability in inflation dynamics has appeared during the global financial crises (May 2007 --December 2009), when deflation displayed in the EMU for...
November 5, 2014
Carlo Bastasin, "L'Europa deve cambiare rotta"

Venticinque anni dopo la caduta del Muro di Berlino, l'entusiasmo di allora si è trasformato in un senso di declino che ridicolizza l'ingenuità del nostro ottimismo. L'Europa si confronta con un impoverimento demografico e una stagnazione economica che...