Giulia Gotti

Nov 13, 2024 | bruegel.org | Marek Dabrowski |Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol |Giulia Gotti |Conor McCaffrey

November 9, 2024, marks the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall - a pivotal moment that led to German reunification. In this special episode of The Sound of Economics, we step beyond the realm of economic policy to explore the personal and historical impact of reunification. Rebecca Christie is joined by Bruegel fellows Marek Dabrowski, Guntram Wolff, and Georg Zachmann.

Oct 31, 2024 | bruegel.org | Silvia Merler |Nicolas Véron |Giulia Gotti |Conor McCaffrey

Just as it was five and ten years ago, the dominant challenge for the European Union’s new financial services commissioner – or to give the full title, commissioner for financial services and the savings and investments union – will be to advance the ongoing transition from 27 national financial systems towards a single European financial system (Merler and Véron, 2024).

Oct 14, 2024 | bruegel.org | Francesco Papadia |Giuseppe Porcaro |Giulia Gotti

The historical track record of centralisation of public expenditures at European Union level is patchy, and the prospects of agreement on future common spending are not good. However, Russia’s attack on Ukraine, NextGenerationEU, ensuring the stability of the euro and the climate crisis have been cited as justifying a further step-up in public spending at EU level.

Sep 4, 2024 | bruegel.org | Nicolas Véron |Giulia Gotti |Conor McCaffrey |Maria Demertzis

As a result of the extensive regulatory activity triggered by the Great Financial Crisis and the euro-area crisis, the area of financial services has seen a clear shift towards broad-based acceptance of primarily EU-level regulation and, to a lesser extent, also supervision. This shift remains unfinished, however. The two main areas in which greater EU integration is both necessary and achievable in the near term are banking crisis intervention and capital markets supervision.

Jun 24, 2024 | bruegel.org | Giulia Gotti

Europe’s banking union, the project to pool responsibility for prudential policy at European Union level, became a reality in 2014 with the empowerment of the European Central Bank as banking supervisor. Ten years on, the project remains unfinished, as European countries can still leverage their domestic banking sectors to serve their special interests and the intervention framework for banking crises continues to be an awkward mix of national and EU authorities and instruments.