LSE European Institute Podcasts

Join us for this public event with Robert Holzmann, Governor of the Austrian National Bank. Governor Holzmann will discuss selected issues of unconventional monetary policy instruments (UMP): Assuming inflation is tamed, can we go back to conventional monetary policy before 2008, when short-term policy interest rates (and reserve requirements) dominated the monetary policy tool bo

The US has 330 million citizens, which is less than 5% of the world’s population. Yet its GDP footprint is around 25% of global GDP. How is that possible? While leading-edge technological innovation and a giant military undoubtedly help, what’s really been the secret sauce for the past 30 plus years is the global role of the dollar. The rest of the world needs a savings asset a

Join us for the book launch of Sovereign Europe: An Agenda for Europe in a Fragmented Global Economy, with co-authors Paolo Guerrieri and Pier Carlo Padoan. This book investigates the evolution of the European and global economy from the 1950s to the present day, focusing on the role of the EU in a new global environment where economy and security intersect. Meet our speaker and

Join us for this event with Elke Evrard, a postdoctoral researcher at the Human Rights Centre of the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University. In recent decades, reparations have emerged as key mechanisms for addressing systemic state-sponsored human rights violations, aiming not only to acknowledge and compensate victims but also to transform the structural causes of th

As digital technologies transform the lives of young people across the globe, profound shifts are occurring in the way young people negotiate their identities. This talk will explore how these new technologies are shaping youth development in general and youth identity development in particular, with a special focus on Türkiye.

Only 7 of the 27 European Union (EU) countries are not members of the union’s common currency area – the euro area - and most of them are in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE): Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Except for Bulgaria, they are all far from meeting the membership convergence criteria, which is mainly a reflection of their governments’ lukewarm – or som

From the 1980s onwards, the widespread shift toward independent central banks enabled them to take firm action to bring down inflation from the high levels seen in most OECD economies, especially in the 1970s. China's opening up to the global economy, exporting lower-priced manufactured goods, reinforced the process in a period that came to be known as the 'great moderation'. For t

In the most recent European Parliament election, forces to the very right have received nearly 30% of the vote. That vote share has been increasing dramatically ever since the financial crisis and reflects a profoundly changing party political system on the national level. Following Hannah Arendt we will not try to judge, but to better understand the economic and social backgroun

This event will discuss the initial findings of a project examining the political feasibility of adopting the UNDP’s “Türkiye Compact” proposal for the EU, Switzerland and the UK. Governments across Europe, including the UK, are looking for new solutions to reduce irregular migration. UNDP's "Türkiye Compact" suggests an innovative economic and social solution where human

Central banks are in the course of reining in inflation, after the surge due to COVID-19 and then the worst energy crisis since the 1970s. This unprecedented series of events obviously raised questions, debates and some criticism; so does a more volatile future, taking a forward-looking approach. François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Banque de France and member of the Euro