AUTHOR'S BIO
Stefano Micossi
Stefano Micossi is Girector General of Assonime, a business association and private think tank in Rome, Chairman of the board of CIR Group, and a member of the board of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.
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The False Promise of Crisis-Resolution Funds
Stefano Micossi Series: European Economies 2010-06-07Ever since financial markets began to stabilize late last year, the idea of making the financial sector pay for the costs incurred by taxpayers to keep it afloat has gained increasing support among policymakers and the wider public. But the idea of a resolution fund is at best a distraction – and at worst a harbinger of further financial instability.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 13361
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How to Make EU Integration Popular
Daniel Gros and Stefano Micossi Series: European Economies 2007-02-27Across the European Union, fears about globalization and antipathy to integration and immigration have produced massive political fallout, including the failed French and Dutch referenda on the Union’s draft constitutional treaty and a de facto moratorium on accession talks with Turkey. The European Council and the Commission have watched helplessly, as if the matter was not in their hands. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 19844
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What Corporate Tax for Europe?
Stefano Micossi Series: European Economies 2006-01-27The European Commission is considering a common model of corporate taxation for the European Union that cannot possibly work. Instead, it should consider a simpler, and more viable, alternative that already exists.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 37003
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Putting Europe into the EU Budget
Daniel Gros and Stefano Micossi Series: European Economies 2005-03-03Most independent observers agree that the European Union’s budget no longer reflects its main tasks and policy goals. Aid to agriculture, a declining sector, consumes over 40% of spending and little is spent on the future (R&D) or on fields in which the EU must assume new responsibilities, such as internal and external security. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 24407
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Dump the Lisbon Agenda
Stefano Micossi Series: European Economies 2004-08-10As soon as he takes office as President of the European Commission, Durao Barroso - Portugal's former Prime Minister - should devote urgent attention to restoring order and focus to the European Union's economic policies. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 18728
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Is the Market Doomed in Giscard's New Europe?
Daniel Gros and Stefano Micossi Series: European Economies 2003-03-17The endgame to determine the European Union's final shape is underway. It began with the publication by the Praesidium of the Convention on the Future of Europe of a draft of the first sixteen articles of the "Treaty to establish a Constitution for Europe." The text mostly replicates the structure of Convention Chairman Valery Giscard d'Estaing's "skeleton" Constitution, presented last November, and the conclusions reached by the Convention's working groups. The key word here is mostly . ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 13008
