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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…
Coronavirus: the responses of EU institutions
Over the past few weeks several criticisms have been raised against the EU institutions, being accused of not having reacted and of not having provided responses to the Coronavirus emergency. On the contrary, if we look carefully we realise it is not so. The EU Commission, the ECB, the European Investment Bank, the European Banking…
Eurogroup agreement: some clarifications
I would have never imagined that it would be this hard for some politicians to understand the difference between deciding to modify the rules of a treaty on financial assistance to member states and deciding to resort to it. I would equally have never imagined to witness the level of confusion and comments triggered two…
Coronavirus: hearing of Gualtieri and update on EU negotiations
These are very intense days on the European front. In the ECON Committee of the EU Parliament we are continuing with hearings and other activities. On Tuesday morning we performed a video conference with Minister Gualtieri who illustrated the challenges for the Union and the Italian Government’s proposals. He presented such position and defended it…
Coronavirus: the European Commission mobilizes all available resources
As anticipated in the past few hours, today the European Commission has delivered a new set of proposed measures to counter the Coronavirus emergency. The most significant part concerns the “SURE” Fund to support employment, but there are also other initiatives. Please find below the full text of the press release with all the details.…
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