Workshop "Can the euro still be saved?"

Program

Morning session: The threats

Guiding questions: Contrary to what one could have hoped for, during the last decade many factors have led to growing divergences within euro area core countries: this is true for growth, public debt trajectories, competitiveness and foreign trade performances, labor market situations…This has contributed to an increase in centrifugal forces that, in a few years, could become harder to curb or to vulnerabilities that could be hard to remedy. 

Input

Anton BRENDER & Florence PISANI (Candriam), France 
Stefan KOOTHS (IFW Kiel), Germany 

Chair

Sandra PARTHIE (IW Köln), Germany

Afternoon Session: The possible cures

Guiding questions: Many initiatives have been taken since the beginning of this decade as a reaction to emergency situations. What could Governments and European authorities do, at the economic and financial level, to cope with the latent threats that, slowly but surely, may be undermining the very existence of the common currency? 

Input

Marcel FRATZSCHER (DIW Berlin), Germany
Laurence BOONE (Axa-IM), France

Chair

Pierre JAILLET (Banque de France), France

Presentations:

Stefan Kooths Anton Brender & Florence PisaniLaurence Boone

Publications:

Priewe, Jan: Ist die Eurozone vielleicht doch ein "optimaler Währungsraum"?

Hacker, Björn; Koch, Cédric M. : The divided Eurozone : Mapping conflicting interests on the reform of the Monetary Union

Zettelmeyer, Jeromin: Ist der Euro noch zu retten? : Vorschläge für eine neue europäische Wirtschaftspolitik 

Hacker, Björn; Koch, Cédric M.: Reform discourses on the Euro zone : continuity, expansion or roll-back in the German debate 

Hacker, Björn; Koch, Cédric M.: Reformdiskurse zur Eurozone : Kontinuität, Ausbau oder Rückbau in der deutschen Debatte