Coordinated Covid Response within the EU
The Franco-German Council of Economic Experts recommends a coordinated response to the COVID crisis at European level. France and Germany should make a stand for this, says Clemens Fuest, President of the ifo Institute.
It is in the interest of every EU member state that countries in the Union hit by the corona-virus are very quickly able to take the necessary measures to control the pandemic, help the economic recovery and prepare the transformation to a more sustainable and resilient European economy. In this context, the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts strongly endorses recent proposals made to respond at the European level in a coordinated manner to the Covid crisis. We believe that France and Germany should support them within the EU.
The Franco-German Council of Economic Experts
Agnès Bénassy Quéré (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Clemens Fuest (ifo Institut), Marcel Fratzscher (DIW Berlin), Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics), Philippe Martin (Sciences Po Paris), Xavier Ragot (Sciences Po Paris), Christoph Schmidt (RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Katheline Schubert (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).
