The written press

Reuters: Investors ask if ECB has will and means to save euro from Italian turmoil

Le Point.fr: Voyage au coeur d’une forteresse financière

Wiener Zeitung: Ein Italiener ist Europas Mann am Geldhahn. Francesco Papadia

Il Sole 24 Ore: Papadia lascia la cabina di regìa BCE

Financial Times: Italian in the hot seat

FT Deutschland: Fünf Jahre Finanzkrise: Die Geister, die sie riefen

Die Welt: Die Menschen hinter dem Euro

Corriere della sera: Papadia, l’italiano che apre i rubinetti dell’ euro

Il Sole 24 Ore: L’Eurotower e le simmetrie della bassa inflazione

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A tale of two elites
Last week's announcement by President Macron of France of the closure of the elite École nationale d’administration (ENA) may seem to be an odd thing for us to choose to write about in a week when HRH Prince Philip has died, and on the very day when, in England at least, the latest relaxations of […]
John Nugée
The EU and Vaccine Diplomacy
Last week, the EU and the UK stepped back from outright confrontation over the distribution and trade in vaccines against Covid. But the episode has added further fuel for critics of Ursula von der Leyen's leadership of the Commission, and is revealing of deeper issues in the EU itself. Continue reading
John Nugée
Book review: The Value of Money
Between 1950 and the coming of the Euro, northern Europe both put more priority on, and had much more success in, controlling inflation and preserving the value of their currencies than the southern states. A new book, "The Value of Money", explores why this is so and what it means for the ECB as it […]
John Nugée