Mark DempseyThis blog discusses some of the key themes of Klaus Regling’s address to the IIEA on 3 February 2021, on the topic of the reform of the ESM Treaty.
EU Affairs
IIEAKlaus Regling examines the implications of reforms to the ESM for financial stability and resilience in Europe.
The Taoiseach sets out his ambitions for Ireland as a global actor in 2021 and beyond.
The Executive Director of the EMA, Emer Cooke, delivers an address on the regulatory role of the EMA in the global response to COVID-19.
On 1 July 2020, Germany assumed the rotating Presidency of the EU Council against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. This briefing examines what we can expect over the next six months.
H.E. Minister Santos Silva outlines the priorities for Portugal’s forthcoming Presidency of the European Union in 2021 in the context of the current and future challenges facing the EU.
State Secretary Dörr-Voß discusses efforts to future-proof EU industrial, competition and economic policy ahead of the forthcoming update of the New Industrial Strategy for Europe.
Professor Lars P. Feld offers his analysis of the outlook for the German economy, including within the wider context of the European Union.
Tony BrownValéry Giscard d’Estaing, President of France from 1974 to 1981, died on 2 December 2020, aged 94. This appreciation of Giscard d’Estaing was written after the conclusion of his two years as Chairman of the European Convention in 2003. The author, Tony Brown, worked as an Advisor to the Oireachtas Members of the Irish Delegation to the Convention The Convention’s success in producing, with near unanimity, a comprehensive constitutional text owed much to Giscard’s presidency marked, in the words of the Financial Times, by “a mix of charm, guile and a certain authoritarianism that one would have expected from a former inhabitant of the Elysée.” Although initially adopted by EU governments, it was not until 2009 that the Lisbon Treaty, containing its main elements for the reformed governance of the EU, was signed and approved, in Ireland’s case after two referenda.
Minister Spahn reflects on lessons learned to date in managing the COVID-19 pandemic and their implications for EU public health policy.
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