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Speech – Recovery and Resilience Facility
The Recovery and Resilience Facility is not only a way to address the effects of Covid crisis, but a great leap forward towards a closer and deeper Union. It complements the action of the European Central Bank, and partially overcomes the lack of a common European fiscal capacity for the time-being. However, we would…
Bloomberg Interview
Below is the full text of my interview with Bloomberg Professional Services for their Global Policymakers Profile series. Here is the link to the original on the Bloomberg website. …. PERSONAL Career highlight Frankly, the most recent one. I was recently elected Chair of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. It has been…
Recovery Plan – the Commission’s proposal
To respond to the social and economic damage caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, in May 27th 2020 the European Commission has presented its proposal (which will need to be approved by the European Parliament and by the Council) named: “Recovery Plan for Europe”. The plan is based on two key elements: an enhanced Multiannual Financial…
ESM – Guide to the Eurogroup Agreement
Over the past few weeks the Italian public debate has once again stalled on the issue of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) following the decision of the Eurogroup on April 9th to establish a new emergency line of credit to help Member States support the health expenditures related to Covid-19. The ESM had already been…
POLITICO Interview
Below is the full text of my interview with POLITICO of May 5th 2020. Here is the link to the website. The EU’s post-coronavirus recovery fund must give countries cash in hand to overturn the recession, the chairwoman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs said in an interview with POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook.…
The fake debate around ESM and the resources to move forward
by Irene Tinagli, published on Il Sole 24 Ore (18 April 2020) “Politics has its reasons which reason does not know”. This is how we could paraphrase the rather surreal debate that in Italy rotates around ESM. For months oppositions have campaigned on the idea that the ESM is like an axe, a trap created…
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