Poverty and social exclusion in Europe: where are things at?
By Sandrine Levasseur In March 2010, the EU set itself the target for the year 2020 of reducing the number of people living below the […]
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Rotation of voting on the ECB Governing Council: more than symbolic?
By Sandrine Levasseur Lithuania’s adoption of the euro on 1 January brought the number of euro zone members to nineteen, the threshold at which the […]
Better abilities or stronger social ties? Drivers of social immobility across EU countries
par Francesco Vona A high level of income inequality is commonly regarded to be more acceptable when associated with high social mobility. Empirical evidence has […]
What Reforms for Europe?
by Christophe Blot [1], Olivier Rozenberg [2], Francesco Saraceno [3] et Imola Streho [4] From May 22 to May 25 Europeans will vote to elect the […]
Towards a better governance in the EU?
By Catherine Mathieu and Henri Sterdyniak The 10th EUROFRAME Conference on economic policy issues in the European Union was held on 24 May 2013 in Warsaw […]
Regulating the financial activities of Europe’s banks: a fourth pillar for the banking union
By Céline Antonin, Henri Sterdyniak and Vincent Touzé At the impetus of EU Commissioner Michel Barnier, on 29 January 2014 the European Commission proposed new […]
Europe’s banks: sustaining the renewal of confidence
By Céline Antonin and Vincent Touzé Since August 2012, bank shares in the stock markets have risen and their volatility has reduced, attesting to a return […]
From austerity to stagnation
By Xavier Timbeau Since 2010, the European Commission has published the Annual Growth Survey to stimulate discussion on the occasion of the European semester, during […]
Shocks, unemployment and adjustment – the limits of the European union
By Christophe Blot In an article published in 2013 in Open Economies Review [1], C. A. E. Goodhart and D. J. Lee compare the mechanisms […]
Solar power is cooling Sino-European relations
By Sarah Guillou In early July 2013, yet another company in the solar industry, Conergy, declared bankruptcy. The departure of this German company, established in […]