Below is the full text of my interview with POLITICO of May 5th 2020. Here is the link to the website. The EU’s post-coronavirus recovery fund must give countries cash in hand to overturn the recession, the chairwoman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs said in an interview with POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook.…
by Irene Tinagli, published on Il Sole 24 Ore (18 April 2020) “Politics has its reasons which reason does not know”. This is how we could paraphrase the rather surreal debate that in Italy rotates around ESM. For months oppositions have campaigned on the idea that the ESM is like an axe, a trap created…
Over the past few weeks several criticisms have been raised against the EU institutions, being accused of not having reacted and of not having provided responses to the Coronavirus emergency. On the contrary, if we look carefully we realise it is not so. The EU Commission, the ECB, the European Investment Bank, the European Banking…
I would have never imagined that it would be this hard for some politicians to understand the difference between deciding to modify the rules of a treaty on financial assistance to member states and deciding to resort to it. I would equally have never imagined to witness the level of confusion and comments triggered two…
These are very intense days on the European front. In the ECON Committee of the EU Parliament we are continuing with hearings and other activities. On Tuesday morning we performed a video conference with Minister Gualtieri who illustrated the challenges for the Union and the Italian Government’s proposals. He presented such position and defended it…
The SURE programme has not even been announced yet and I already see fake news circulating on the web. On the basis of the Commission’s proposal published yesterday, I’ll try to answer some questions/doubts. Let me add a personal comment, placing myself between those who believe it is an historic decision and those who think…
As anticipated in the past few hours, today the European Commission has delivered a new set of proposed measures to counter the Coronavirus emergency. The most significant part concerns the “SURE” Fund to support employment, but there are also other initiatives. Please find below the full text of the press release with all the details.…
Following last week’s meeting with the Coordinators of the ECON Committee to discuss the Coronavirus emergency, it has been decided to begin a series of meetings between the ECON Coordinators and the Presidents of the main European institutions that are engaged in tackling the economic implications of the pandemic. Today we have inaugurated this cycle…
Below is the text of the statement produced by the ECON Committee that I chair, following an internal debate among the respective coordinators, in which we ask for stronger and braver economic measures at the European level. It is unfortunate that the ECR and ID political groups that list Fretelli d’Italia and Lega Nord among…
To counter the Coronavirus emergency in the EU member states, we need a common approach. I have discussed this on BBC World News.