Daniel Gros related content 

Policymakers should focus on all of the unemployed not just unemployed young people European policymakers have decided that they must be seen to be ‘doing something' about...

Distinguishing between foreign and domestic debt is crucial to understanding the role of austerity The most visible symptom of the crisis in the eurozone has been the high...

One of the most important lessons for the EU is that banks can be allowed to become insolvent The root of the problem in Cyprus is well known. Its two major banks had...

The successes of small countries like Latvia and Iceland offer few general lessons. Interest in small countries' economic...

The argument is very overblown – and where deeper integration really would benefit Europe, it appears to be the last thing that national leaders want. At high-level...

A eurozone budget and an unemployment insurance fund are not the best means of absorbing shocks to the European economy. A key question confronts the four presidents of...

The US has detoxified the debt that caused its financial crisis. The challenge for the EU is greater A financial crisis erupts when a large volume of financial assets...

Europe should not wait around when it comes to shale gas. We read with surprise Daniel Gros's article “Let the shale-gas revolution pass” (11-17 October). Despite the...

Three reasons why Europe should not rush to exploit shale gas. The global energy community is abuzz with excitement about hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking', a new-ish...

The early US experience of ‘debt mutualisation' provides neither a useful analogy nor an encouraging precedent for Eurobonds. The emerging consensus in Europe nowadays is...

The creation of a European banking supervisor will be a long, slow process, but the eurozone does not have the luxury of time. By the end of last week, ten-year government...

Can national authorities still be held responsible for saving banks that they no longer supervise? At the beginning of the financial crisis, it was said that banks were, in...

The EU is falling into a familiar trap with its shift from talk of austerity to talk of growth. A few months ago, 25 of the 27 members of the European Union solemnly signed a...

The ECB has now done as much as the Fed to stimulate the economy – but finds itself on much riskier ground. More than three years after the financial crisis that erupted in...

Interest rates must rise if, like Estonia, Greece is to change consumption patterns and halt the flight of deposits. The first de facto default of a country classified as...

Why abandoning austerity now would be highly dangerous in the long run. Europe seems to be obsessed with austerity. Country after country is being forced by either the...

The eurozone's policy-making, not its economic fundamentals, are the real threat to the single currency. Great empires rarely succumb to outside attacks. But they often...

The segmentation of Europe's banking system along national lines risks overburdening the European Central Bank. A central bank always has a crucial role to play in a...

A proper system for managing eurozone crises is emerging. Is the eurozone stepping back from the brink? This might just be possible, because the emerging outlines of a...

To help Europe's – and the world's – economy recover, both debtors and creditors need to make an effort. Despite near-zero interest rates across the developed world, the...