Webinar with MEP Garicano and LSE Professor De Grauwe: “Recovering better: how to rebuild a post-pandemic European economy?”
28 May 2020, 19:00
The COVID-19 pandemic will continue for months to impose severe disruption on the global economy, and on human communities everywhere. The European Commission expects a greater economic impact than during the financial crisis in 2008. No one is confident of a rapid recovery in 2021.
Europe and its Member States have taken measures without precedent in peacetime to keep the economy running, and EU leaders are working on a recovery plan for the EU. The European Commission’s revised budget strategy, due to be out on 27 May, will be the main vehicle for agreeing a joined up strategy, and for realising what aspects of the recovery plan are just too sensitive for effective cooperation.
Join us for a lively high-level webinar debate with Dr. Luis Garicano and Professor Paul de Grauwe that will explore the options and implications of action taken at the European level: What measures are needed to ensure a swift and sustainable economic recovery in the medium to long-term? What policy adjustments are needed to build and maintain a political consensus in support of joint solutions? What new social contract will recreate trust between work-forces, governments and business?
- Date and time: Thursday, 28 May, from 19:00 to 20:15.
- The event is free to attend and open to all
- Register to receive the connection details
Luis Garicano (@lugaricano) is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Vice President of Renew Europe group and Vice President of the European political party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE Party). He is head of the Spanish Ciudadanos delegation in the European Parliament and Coordinator in the Economic Affairs (ECON) committee. Before working in Brussels, he was Professor of Strategy and Economics at the Business School of the Business Institute and at the London School of Economics (LSE). While at LSE, he founded and directed the Master's program in Economics and Management and, in 2011, became the Group Head of the Managerial Economics and Strategy Group.
Paul De Grauwe (@pdegrauwe) is John Paulson Chair in European Political Economy at the LSE's European Institute. He is also Director of the money, macro and international finance research network of CESifo, University of Munich and a research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels and the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. Prior to joining LSE, Paul De Grauwe was Professor of International Economics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He was a member of the Belgian parliament from 1991 to 2003. He was also member of the Group of Economic Policy Analysis, advising EC President Barroso.
