10.03.2010
13:00 - 14:30

IMF in the Eurozone: Last Resort or Wrong Signal?

Madariaga-College of Europe Foundation
Avenue de la Joyeuse Entrée 14, Box 2
B-1040 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32 2 209 6210
Fax: +32 2 209 6211
Email: info@madariaga.org

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Representation of the European Commission in Belgium
73 rue Archimède
1000 Brussels

Eurozone countries are finding themselves in the very uncomfortable position of suffering anemic growth and skyrocketing unemployment under the constraints imposed by unsustainable deficits. As such, after 10 years the single currency turns out to be not enough to prevent the concrete possibility of sovereign defaults. Is it time to call in the IMF as suggested by many voices? Or should Europe start coping with asymmetrical shocks through its own mechanisms?

Wolfgang Munchau, columnist at the Financial Times, and André Sapir, Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Senior Fellow at Bruegel, for one its Citizen's Controversies.