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 […]
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Manic-depressive austerity: let’s talk about it!
By Christophe Blot, Jérôme Creel, and Xavier Timbeau Following discussions with our colleagues from the European Commission [1], we return to the causes of the […]
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 […]
France-Germany: is there a demographic dividend?
By Vincent Touzé Thanks to a high birth rate, France is aging less quickly than Germany. According to Eurostat, the French population is expected to […]
What minimum wage for Germany?
By Odile Chagny and Sabine Le Bayon The campaign for the parliamentary elections taking place on 22 September in Germany has engendered a broad debate […]
On cosmopolitan currency
By Maxime Parodi, sociologist at the OFCE A cosmopolitan currency is a currency common to many nations and explicitly based on a form of co-sovereignty […]
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 […]
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 […]
A fiscal policy to promote structural reform – lessons from the German case
By Eric Heyer “France should copy Germany’s reforms to thrive”, Gerhard Schröder entitled an opinion piece in the Financial Times on 5 June 2013. As […]