Croatia under the Excessive Deficit Procedure: which measures should be implemented?
By Sandrine Levasseur How to put public finances on a good track when (almost) all measures regarding spending cuts and tax increases have been already […]
Fiscal policy
America’s fiscal headache
By Christine Rifflart Before next December 13th, the Budget Conference Committee must present the results of the discussions begun following the shutdown and debt crisis […]
Shut down: America in the spotlight
By Christine Rifflart A State that asks a third of its civil servants to stay home because it can’t pay them is in a critical […]
Austerity in Europe: a change of course?
By Marion Cochard and Danielle Schweisguth On 29 May, the European Commission sent the members of the European Union its new economic policy recommendations. In these […]
France: why such zeal?
By Marion Cochard and Danielle Schweisguth On 29 May, the European Commission sent the members of the European Union its new economic policy recommendations. As part […]
Pensions: the Moreau report’s poor compromise
By Henri Sterdyniak Under pressure from the financial markets and Europe’s institutions, the government felt obliged to present a new pension reform in 2013. However, […]
Competitiveness: danger zone!
By Céline Antonin, Christophe Blot, Sabine Le Bayon and Catherine Mathieu The crisis affecting the euro zone is the result of macroeconomic and financial imbalances […]
Inequality and Global Imbalances: reconsidering old ideas to address new problems
by Jean-Luc Gaffard and Francesco Vona The main challenge of the Bretton Woods agreements was to reconcile social justice and full employment to be achieved […]
In the Netherlands, change is for now!
By Christophe Blot While France has just reaffirmed that it will meet its commitment to reduce its budget deficit to below 3% by 2014 (see […]
What kind of pension reform for 2013?
In a speech on 28 March, Francois Hollande raised the 20 billion euro deficit forecast for 2020 in order to announce a further extension of […]