Joan Miró i Artigas

Joan Miró i Artigas

Joan Miró i Artigas

Joan Miró i Artigas

joanmiroartigas@gmail.com

2 April 2022

Walking the road together? Resolving inter-state conflicts in the path towards the NGEU plan

By Stefano Ronchi and Joan Miró i Artigas

The dramatic socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic reawakened the tensions between Northern and Southern member states that had already shaken the EU during the 2010s. Contrary to what happened during the euro crisis, in the COVID crisis the member states managed to reach an agreement in only about five months. How did EU leaders move past the deadlock of the euro crisis years?

22 April 2021

Beyond wage devaluation in Spain?

By Joan Miró i Artigas

One of the most vibrant debates taking place concerns the limitations and possibilities that exist in the EU for going beyond austerity-based social and economic policies. In this post we ask to what extent the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the social policy responses it has been triggering, has altered this course, by focusing on the social and labour market policies adopted in reaction to the pandemic by a left-wing Southern European government, that of Spain.

26 October 2020

Towards de-globalisation? What are the implications for the European Union’s social policy?

By Joan Miró i Artigas

The tide of globalisation seems to be changing in recent times. What could imply a de-globalising scenario for social policy within the EU?

8 May 2020

The crumbling of the dangerous idea? Austerity perceptions in the EU after the euro crisis

By Joan Miró i Artigas

Among the many things of the pre-Corona world that seem to have aged faster since the eruption of the pandemic is the macroeconomic commitment to fiscal restraint. In the last weeks, many pundits have forecast the decline of this principle in light of the massive fiscal stimuli that the post-COVID recovery will require. Will this sequence of ‘emergency Keynesianism’ rapidly followed by austerity be repeated this time?

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