Podcasts about European Stability Mechanism

In this episode of The Sound of Economics, we mark a decade since the Greek debt crisis, reflecting past hardships and the progress made and the challenges that lie ahead. Host Rebecca Christie is joined by George Papaconstantinou, former Greek Minister of Finance, and Eleni Varvitsioti, journalist and expert on European affairs. Together, they explore Greece's recovery journey, from the turbulence of the crisis to its recovery and economic growth. They discuss the cautious optimism in Greece today and the resilience of the Greek people, as well as continuing fiscal and political challenges.  The episode mentions the following books:  ‘Game Over: The Inside Story of the Greek Crisis' by George Papaconstantinou  ‘The Last Bluff: How Greece came face-to-face with financial catastrophe & the secret plan for its euro exit' by Viktoria Dendrinou and Eleni Varvitsioti  Safeguarding the Euro in Times of Crisis: The Inside Story of the ESM, by the European Stability Mechanism, lead author Rebecca Christie

Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. Europe faces a gigantic climate investment gap. Can an EU climate debt financing scheme help to close it? To do this, Irene Monasterolo and her co-authors are proposing the joint issuance of climate bonds by the European Stability Mechanism, funded by selling greenhouse gas emission allowances via the ETS. She talks to Tim Phillips about what this would mean in practice for the greening of the monetary system and the efforts of EU states to counter the effects of climate change – and also the political impact if the funding mechanism creates the EU's first common fiscal capacity.

Send us a text◆ Riso and Ruhl on the development of the market's biggest new bond issuer ◆ Beyond NextGeneration EU: can the bloc fund defence? ◆ The campaign for sovereign-like borrower statusThe European Union is the highest profile bond issuer in the market. In response to the pandemic, it ramped up its borrowing to fund member states' recovery from the disaster, going from raising around €500m a year to around €150bn almost overnight.As an issuer, it dominates the public sector bond market and in this episode, GlobalCapital asked two of its most important figures, when it comes to its bond market activities, about what lies in store.We talked about how the issuer's capital markets presence is developing, why it believes it should be classed as a sovereign-style issuer (and the progress it has made), and its possible future funding needs.Our guests:Stephanie Riso is the director general of DG Budget within the European Commission — the department responsible for raising and allocating the money the EU needs to implement policy, including from the bond market. She took over the directorate in March 2023, joining from the cabinet of Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, where she oversaw the creation of the €800bn NextGenerationEU programme that the EU's bond issues fund.Siegfried Ruhl is hors classe advisor to DG Budget and a veteran of the public sector bond market. He initially took the post on a short secondment from the European Financial Stability and European Stability Mechanism — the two bond issuing bailout vehicles for EU member states founded during the sovereign debt crisis, which he helped set up. Over four years later he is still at the heart of developing the EU's capabilities as a bond issuer — a task he is well versed in having not only been there since the start with the EFSF and ESM but also having helped to create Germany's Finanzagentur, the country's debt management office.

Climate change is a rising threat to European financial stability, says European Stability Mechanism chief economist Rolf Strauch on this episode of The Sound of Economics. Together with Bruegel non-resident fellow Stavros Zenios and host Rebecca Christie, Strauch discusses how the EU can rally to protect itself from future shocks and keep its sovereign debt backstops ready to meet future needs. 

Job seeking? What ADEM can offer, plus MBA at Liège Luxembourg & IDCN for a new network. Plans for the weekend? Try Luxembourg Polo Club 10th Anniversary. This week I have a packed show! Ever walked past an 'ADEM' building and wondered what it is? Well, director Isabelle Schlesser, its director tells us all about this organisation which helps job seekers and also employers. Isabelle explains that unemployment is not as low as one might suspect in a country such as Luxembourg. About one third of job seekers are Luxembourgish, one third are Portuguese and one third are 'all the rest'. ADEM is open for registration to anyone with Luxembourg residency and they have great links to training resources such as languages and IT skills. Mario Della Schiava tells us about the seven agencies around the country and the advantages of being registered with ADEM. Inès Baer, Head of ADEM's Data Department, talks through the situation of the labour market, which jobs are most common and those that have the greatest shortages. ADEM have worked directly with the Digital Learning Hub to create precise training courses to fill the needs of Luxembourg's job market. Ageism in the job market does exists People aged 45+ find it harder to get jobs and language skills are also an issue, with French and English being the most asked for requirements on the Luxembourg market. Isabelle advises that the hopeful new legislation to come should help open up working opportunities to 'third-country' spouses. She also reminds employers that it's a legal obligation to register their job openings, which will produce a more transparent database from which Luxembourg can also learn where the gaps in the market are, and therefore address them. HEC Liège Luxembourg Pratiksha Misra is the Recruiting Manager at HEC Liège Luxembourg and talks about the course opportunities plus links with internships. Pascal Wiscour-Conter, a Luxembourger who spent the bulk of his career in the USA, returned just before COVID to get his Visa. However, lock-down meant he and his wife ended up 'stuck' here by chance. With this experience, Pascal felt what it is like to be an 'ex-pat' in Luxembourg. Pascal has brought his vast experience of working with start-ups, being an entrepreneur and writer himself, to teach the Strategic Communications course at HEC Liège Luxembourg, himself being an alumni of the business school in Liège. International Dual Career Network International Dual Career Network, or IDCN, is a global non-profit association of companies, NGOs and academic institutions, which works closely with the corporate members to make sure the dual career partners have a successful transition to provide them with networking and development opportunities in Luxembourg. Zehra Gozukara - the Partner President for IDCN Luxembourg talks about their links with companies such as Amazon, ArcelorMittal, British Chamber of Commerce, European Investment Bank, European Stability Mechanism, Ferrero, PwC,Vodafone, University of Luxembourg and HEC Liège Luxembourg. Zehra herself benefitted from linking with IDCN when she moved to Luxembourg as a trailing spouse. Polo Club Luxembourg Erick Lauro and Pablo Casero come to the studio laden with polo shirts and paraphernalia. Erick started polo aged 60 at his daughter's insistence. She is now herself one of the best polo players in the country aged just 16, competing all over Europe. Pablo Casero started polo aged 11 in his homeland Argentina and has travelled the world playing and teaching polo since the age of 18. Now with his own two children, aged 5 and 1, they are already on horses! Join Erick and Pablo at the 10 year anniversary of Polo Club Luxembourg's annual Summer Polo Rendez-Vous on 7, 8 and 9 July. It will be a weekend of polo, food, sublime entertainment and great company. You can tune into Lisa's shows on Today Radio Saturdays at 11am, Sundays at noon and Tuesdays at 10am.

◆ A dicey moment for bank bonds ◆ Unibail shops for hybrid solution ◆ Vibes from this year's 'Euromoney' ◆ The ESM's new MD speaks to GlobalCapitalThe covered bond market had a wobble this week. It was the last thing bank bond issuers needed just as the wreckage of Credit Suisse and Silicon Valley Bank disappeared from the rear view mirror. But it could be the first sign of further volatility in FIG bonds with the market set to face an imminent, severe structural readjustment.Commercial property firms are a class of issuer that have been facing up to tougher conditions for some time, leading to trickier financing conditions. We discuss shopping centre operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield's novel way of refinancing its hybrid debt, which is callable next month.The 32nd edition of Euromoney's Global Borrowers and Investors Forum took place this week, at which GlobalCapital played a prominent role. The event, such a big part of the bond market chalendar that it is known to most simply as “Euromoney”, draws in anybody who is anybody from the SSA, FIG and European corporate bond markets. Well, we certainly found a somebody to speak to: Pierre Gramegna, the new MD of the European Stability Mechanism spoke to us at the conference about the institution's future.

The pandemic and subsequent downturn have seen EU countries deploy unprecedented fiscal support, while the EU as a whole complemented this with an architectural innovation in the form of the Next Generation EU fund. As European economies begin to recover, is it time to return to pre-pandemic fiscal rules or is it time to reform them? If yes, then what should be changed and how? Bruegel's Deputy director Maria Demertzis takes a deep dive with Senior fellow Zsolt Darvas and Rolf Strauch, Chief economist of European Stability Mechanism.

In his address to the IIEA, Governor of the Bank of Portugal, Mário Centeno, will assess the monetary and fiscal policy responses of the European Union to the Coronavirus pandemic. Additionally, Governor Centeno assesses the potential risks and challenges that lie ahead and propose policy instruments that can minimise these risks. About the speaker Mário Centeno was appointed Governor of Banco de Portugal in July 2020. He served as President of the Eurogroup and Chair of the Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism, and for over four years he was Finance Minister of Portugal. An experienced economist, Mr Centeno has held several positions in Banco de Portugal, where he started his career in 1993. He holds a PhD in Economics, from Harvard University.

As part of our interactive webinar on Conflict Management as a Strategic Business tool, we were joined by international business leaders who shared their insights on effective innovation management in a virtual environment. The panel included: Kirsty Leivers – Global Head of Culture, Inclusion and Diversity at AXA Global, Paris Sofie De Beule-Roloff – Chief Operating Officer at European Stability Mechanism, Luxembourg Sylvia Rohde-Liebenau – Managerial Advisor, Coaching and Development at European Investment Bank, Luxembourg Rob Palfrey – Managing Director at SRM Limited and Director at Human Rights at Sea Listen to their experiences of managing the widespread shift to remote-working and their advice for ensuring individuals, teams and organisations can remain innovative and effective in the short, medium and long term.

We look at two countries where things may be changing: Germany, as it starts to imagine life beyond Merkel, and Italy, after the resignation of the prime minister. Would Armin Laschet as Chancellor mean business as usual? Can Conte cobble together a new government? Where are the biggest challenges to the established order coming from? Plus we talk about the new politics of vaccine nationalism. With Helen Thompson, Hans Kundnani and Lucia Rubinelli.Talking Points:In some ways Germany is in a state of continuity, rather than flux.Armin Laschet is a continuity candidate. Though it’s not clear that he will be the candidate for chancellor in the September election.Were Laschet to become chancellor, you would probably have a Black-Green coalition. Has the pandemic made coalition formation less difficult? If so, it would be because the Christian Democrats are in a stronger position than they were.The German Greens may be different from other Green parties.When the Greens emerged in the late 70s/early 80s, it wasn’t clearly a left-wing party.The Greens have become more centrist on economic issues, and the Christian Democrats have moved left on environmental questions.As environmental politics becomes bigger, is there a constituency that will oppose this? Anti-Americanism in Germany is now quite high.Ultimately, the Germany-US relation is more driven by structural factors; Germans don’t believe that they need the United States in the way they did during the Cold War.How committed is Germany to other European states that do feel threatened by Russia? Conte resigned yesterday; he has 72 hours to try to come back.Conte resigned because Renzi decided to recall two of his ministers plus an undersecretary.Renzi said he no longer shares the method that the government is using, and he accused Conte of undermining democratic institutions through emergency legislation.Renzi accused Conte of not having a long-term plan for economic development and criticized his statist plans for the recovery fund.He also wants the government to accept the European Stability Mechanism for healthcare.These are a lot of demands for someone polling at close to nothing. The other two coalition partners don’t want anything to do with Renzi anymore. The question is whether they will stick to it and find a different majority, which seems difficult, or, whether they decide to bring Renzi back into government and get rid of Conte.The only disciplining effect here seems to be a fear of elections—and Salvini.Conte was initially meant to be a placeholder prime minister.That changed with the second Conte government (from Summer 2019). The new coalition gave him more power. This grew with the pandemic.The conflict over how Italy spends its money is coming back in full force.Further Learning: More on Laschet and the struggle to unite the partyHans’ essay on the costs of convergence More from Hans on Germany’s democratic dysfunctionality More on Conte’s decision to quit

Covid-19 has overhauled working norms, prompting a widespread shift to remote working and testing new areas of operational management. Sofie De Beule-Roloff, chief operating officer of the European Stability Mechanism, and Emmanuel Dooseman, partner and global head of banking at Mazars, join OMFIF's Kat Usita to discuss the challenges that employers and workers face during this crisis, including how to maintain safe, supportive and inclusive work environments. Read the blog by European Stability Mechanism here: https://www.esm.europa.eu/blog/teleworking-transforming-insights-progress  Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

This week we look at the big changes in European politics during the crisis and ask who has managed to turn it around. Is Italy now a model for crisis management? Has there been a reorientation in German politics under Merkel? Can the EU rescue fund really rescue the European project? Plus we discuss the long-term implications of big state politics for the future of Europe. With Helen Thompson, Lucia Rubinelli and Hans Kundnani.Talking Points:Over the summer, life—including political life—in Italy resumed some normalcy.There will be regional and local elections, as well as a constitutional referendum, at the end of September.The government now seems to be on firmer ground. This has to do with the recovery fund, and the fact that the two main parties in the coalition have decided to run together.The Five Star movement had previously said it would never run with another party. It is becoming a more establishment party.Salvini’s comeback has slowed down. Salvini has made several mistakes over COVID.The League runs the region that suffered the most during the COVID crisis. The president of that region, who is close to Salvini, is now embroiled in a corruption scandal that has to do with the process of buying PPE.Italy has stabilized the situation domestically by excluding those who are most radical about the euro and by getting ECB and wider EU external support for Italy’s debt.In Germany, there is a sense that Merkel has moved quite radically on debt mutualization in the Eurozone. But there’s some misunderstanding about what the recovery fund does: it doesn’t deal with the pre-2020 macro imbalances in the Eurozone. During the negotiations in March, Conte was hard on the EU. But once it was negotiated, the tone switched completely. The debate over the conditions of accepting money from the EU is almost completely focused on whether Italy should apply to the European Stability Mechanism. This doesn’t seem to translate to the recovery fund, which is surprising.Five Star can criticize Europe in one regard, while accepting everything else.But unhappiness with conditionality always reasserts itself in Italian politics because of Italy’s debt position and Eurozone fiscal rules.There is too much focus on Merkel. Merkel has embodied a broad consensus in German politics that has existed for the last 15 years. She tends to go with the flow of German public opinion.The shift in Germany that led to the recovery fund is an example of this: she shifted because she saw public opinion shifting.The big questions are: who will be Merkel’s successor? And who will be the junior partner in the coalition that successor leads?In both Italy and Germany, there appears to be a doubling down on grand coalition politics.In Italy’s case, this has involved co-opting a previous anti-establishment party. In fact, Five Star is now the senior partner.In Germany, it’s more about keeping out anti-establishment parties.There is a danger that the EU constrains countries from making the kind of shift toward state intervention that European governments currently want to make due to COVID.This could become a problem down the line.If EU countries were unanimous about this shift, you could imagine a remaking of the EU, but the old divides will almost certainly come back.Mentioned in this Episode: Our most recent episode with LuciaOur March... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Professore ordinario di metodi matematici dell'economia presso l'università di Palermo. È autore di due libri e numerosi articoli in riviste scientifiche di rilevanza internazionale. Ha svolto attività di consulenza per la Banca della Svizzera Italiana (CH) e Prometeia (IT) su gestione di portafoglio e di polizze assicurative; ha collaborato con IVASS nello sviluppo di un sistema per l'individuazione delle frodi assicurative ed è stato consulente dello European Stability Mechanism per lo studio di modelli per la sostenibilità del debito sovrano. In ambito accademico è stato coordinatore locale e nazionale di progetti di rilevanza nazionale.

As Europe stares down the barrel of a major economic contraction due to the pandemic, how can the continent get its workers and businesses back on their feet? How much money will have to be spent on the recovery and where will the funds come from? Catherine Nicholson speaks to the head of the eurozone's bailout fund, Klaus Regling, who is managing director of the European Stability Mechanism.

Tuesday 14th April 2020 The US Fed has extended its QE shopping list. Agreeing to buy junk bonds from corporations that are suffering the impacts of the Corona virus. Phil Dobbie asks NAB’s Ray Attrill whether it’ll work, given some government and central bank measures are failing to cut through. The market was impressed initially, but shares fell again today. Oil prices are also falling again, despite the OPEC+ agreement to cut oil production. Clearly, it’s not enough, or there’s concerns that participants won’t follow through. In Europe an agreement has been reached to provide support for governments through the European Stability Mechanism. It’s not gone down well with Italy, who will undoubtedly have to borrow the most and, therefore, pay back the most. Meanwhile, the Aussie dollar continues to be the best performing G20 currency. We look at why that is, and look ahead to today’s NAB Business Survey, US earnings and China’s trade data.

Marco Zanni, the leader of the Identity and Democracy faction of the European Parliament and Italy’s Foreign Affairs spokesman for the Lega party, exposes the fraud of the EU’s European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bank bailout scheme and of the Green New Deal, and argued for bank separation (Glass-Steagall) instead. Zanni warned that faced by stress throughout the financial system, “the EU and European Central Bank are refusing to assess properly or to consider actions to tackle the huge risks that are evident to everyone now.” The ESM “is a complicated, useless mechanism that is typical of EU decision-making processes. We have an instrument which is already in place and could guarantee financial stability to the financial system: It is the ECB. We don’t need the ESM as a safety net.”

The European Stability Mechanism’s Senior Quantitative Analyst, Martin Hillebrand, discusses the impact of innovation – particularly in the Primary Fixed Income Markets with Alex Malitsky of TD Securities. He answers questions on the role of competition vs. collaboration in driving change and gives his view on which market participants have to be the origin of the “evolution”. Martin finishes up by discussing the future value of data as a commodity and how its value will change in comparison to factors of value to Fixed Income Markets.

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The final document on the German coalition agreement will have significant consequences for the European Union and the Eurozone. Bruegel director Guntram Wolff gives his assessment of the agreement's key features in this episode of 'The Sound of Economics' The negotiations to form the next German government have been a significant factor in European affairs for months now. With an agreement finally struck, this episode of 'The Sound of Economics' sees Bruegel director Guntram Wolff analyse the document of the agreement and what it means for the EU. In short, there is a lot of continuity: the Bundestag remains in charge of the European Stability Mechanism, and the EU's fiscal rules are praised; there will be money for the EU budget, too. More significant is the will to move towards a common tax base and minimum tax rate for corporate taxation. Overall, this is not a breakthrough for Europe. Further reading: [What has driven the votes for Germany's right-wing Alternative für Deutschland?](http://bruegel.org/2017/10/what-has-driven-the-votes-for-germanys-right-wing-alternative-fur-deutschland/) - by Alexander Roth and Guntram B. Wolff SPEAKER: Guntram B. Wolff, Director, Bruegel. PRODUCTION: Sean Gibson & Giuseppe Porcaro

Mauricio Cardenas, Colombia's finance minister, says oil prices are the reason for lower GDP growth levels. Prior to that, Jason Furman, former chairman at the Council of Economic Advisers, says he's confident the Trump administration can keep up with the Ph.D.'s of the IMF. Ken Leon, a bank analyst at CFRA, says JPMorgan is more efficient than its peers. Klaus Regling, the managing director of the European Stability Mechanism, says lower taxes can help economic growth. Finally, South Africa's Central Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago says the government is stable despite political contestation.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Mauricio Cardenas, Colombia's finance minister, says oil prices are the reason for lower GDP growth levels. Prior to that, Jason Furman, former chairman at the Council of Economic Advisers, says he's confident the Trump administration can keep up with the Ph.D.'s of the IMF. Ken Leon, a bank analyst at CFRA, says JPMorgan is more efficient than its peers. Klaus Regling, the managing director of the European Stability Mechanism, says lower taxes can help economic growth. Finally, South Africa's Central Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago says the government is stable despite political contestation. 

Klaus Regling, European Stability Mechanism, gives a talk for the European Studies Centre seminar series on banking and the economic recession. Chaired by Max Watson, St Antony's College.

Klaus Regling, European Stability Mechanism, gives a talk for the European Studies Centre seminar series on banking and the economic recession. Chaired by Max Watson, St Antony's College.

This 13. April 2013 show was broadcast from the Freiheit Studio in Vienna, Austria, United States of Europe on the Liberty Radio Network and the No Agenda Stream. I was joined by guest Mart van der Leer of TheRawReport.org, in Meerkerk, The Netherlands. Specifically we talked about the so-called European Stability Mechanism, bailouts through the back door, European Soviet Union, debt in the Netherlands, the EU generation, perceptions of the EU project, European Students For Liberty, the moral high ground, and much more. SHOWNOTES HERE LINKS TO FOLLOW Website: Liberty In Exile Twitter: @YaelOss Facebook: Liberty In Exile Mart's Website: The Raw Report Mart's Twitter: @MartLibertarian

On 5 October 2020, Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for Economy, attended the Eurogroup chaired online by Paschal Donohoe.As Member States prepare their recovery and resilience plans and draft budgets for 2021, the Eurogroup exchanged views on the policy priorities for the euro area in the context of the recovery. The Eurogroup gave its support to the candidacy of Frank Elderson currently executive board member of De Nederlandsche Bank NV (DNB), to replace the outgoing member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, Yves Mersch, whose term of office expires on 14 December. The Eurogroup discussed the 7th enhanced surveillance report on Greece. The Commission adopted a decision on 11 July 2018 to activate the enhanced surveillance framework for Greece, which entered into force following the end of the European Stability Mechanism programme in August 2018. The Eurogroup took stock of exchange rate developments over the previous months in view of the upcoming annual meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund.This video shows the press conference given by Paolo Gentiloni, Paschal Donohoe and Klaus Regling, Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), on this occasion.