A repository of solutions to global problems

For two years now, leading policy makers, academics and businessmen have been meeting for discussions in the Global Economic Symposium to provide concrete solutions for the most pressing global governance issues the world will be facing this century. Here is the result of these discussions: a repository of concrete policy proposals.

A test calibrated to fix the result

By: Wolfgang Münchau

If you tried to test the safety of cars using the same method, you would end up in jail.

Eurozone Meltdown

This is the first in a new series of regular briefing notes on important issues facing the euro area. In this briefing note we are asking whether the euro area could ever break up. We think not. But we are not as certain as we used to be.

Fiscal policy in Central and Eastern Europe

By: John Lewis

Countercyclical but deteriorating with EU membership.

The case for immediate Euroisation

By: Wolfgang Munchau

The crisis in central and eastern Europe becomes potentially life threatening for the euro area. Given the high extent of foreign currency borrowing in some of those countries, the best strategy would be an immediate euroisation.

The case for UK membership of the euro

By: Wolfgang Münchau

There are four reasons why the UK might change its position on euro membership. These reasons are not new. What is new is that due to the financial crisis they weigh stronger than the benefits of monetary independence.

The crisis that pulls Europe closer together

By: Wolfgang Münchau

The financial crisis shows that the economic strategies of parts of non-euro area Europe are non viable. The result will be faster EU and euro area enlargement.