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Fighting the recession: money, not debt

The coronavirus crisis is forcing Western policymakers to bend their principles: lawmakers in the United States have just approved 2.2 trillion dollars in emergency spending; the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,…

La partita economica europea: capire i dettagli

Il 20 febbraio si è conclusa senza esito una riunione del Consiglio europeo dedicata al nuovo quadro finanziario pluriennale. I Capi di Stato e di Governo dell’Unione cercavano senza raggiungerlo un consenso sulle risorse da attribuire al…

A bazooka of words

“We are at war,” President Emmanuel Macron stressed six times as France slipped into lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus. “We are at war (…), fighting an invisible enemy,” US President Donald Trump echoed from the other shore of…