Marco Buti is the Director General of DG Economic and Financial Affairs for the European Commission.
The last twelve years have been deeply transformative for the European Commission and for the EU. The global financial crisis which started right at the beginning of my tenure as Director...
Over the past few years, economies in the OECD and in particular in the EU had been growing at cruising speed, after having seemingly shrugged off the remains of the global financial cris...
Today, EU11 economies1 are among the most open economies globally (Figure 1). Their degree of trade openness has increased and the nature of their trade flows has changed rapidly in this ...
Just ten years ago the international community came together to react to the global economic and financial crisis. In the aftermath of 2008, the concerted actions of the G20 members to st...
The prime objective of Europe's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is to foster stability and economic growth. But for this to happen, the EMU needs to be able to: first, better prevent cr...
