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As we feel the limits of our planet, governments must mobilise their regulatory toolkit and all the public resources required for the sustainable transition, to ensure economic resilience and the prosperity of future generations. This means upgrading infrastructure, health and educational systems and supporting the citizens affected by the economic transition.

Public deficits will likely increase, but paradoxically, they are indispensable for public debt sustainability in the long run, and financial markets know it. Public money is required to crowd in private investment and a failure to invest will result in much bigger future fiscal imbalances due to unmitigated climate change and loss of economic and social resilience.

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Joint statement

Manifesto – NGOs and academics call for fundamental reform of Europe’s fiscal rules

Finance Watch co-publishes today a manifesto demanding a deep reform of Europe’s spending rules. Signed by over 270 prominent academics, unions and civil society organisations from across Europe, it reminds EU finance...
Policy brief

Policy brief – “Breaking The Stalemate: Upgrading EU economic governance for the challenges ahead”

Thirty years after Maastricht and faced with serious economic, environmental, and social challenges, the time has come for Europe to upgrade its economic governance framework and views of the role played by...
Consultation response

Maastricht 2.0: Updating EU economic governance for the challenges ahead

Report

Fiscal Mythology Unmasked

Debunking eight tales about European public debt and fiscal rules. Europe faces serious environmental, economic and social challenges that require a rethink on public intervention. Not free to do as they wish,...
Policy brief

One Framework to Rule Them All

The European fiscal framework in five questions. A helpful primer that explores the set of rules within the European fiscal framework that constrain EU Member States’ fiscal policy.
Factsheet

Navigating the Maze

A Finance Watch primer on how to reform European economic governance. European Member States remain constrained by European economic governance – a maze of rules impacting their fiscal and socio-economic policies. Highly...
Open letter

Reshaping the European Fiscal Framework – English language letter

An open letter sent in February to European Union leaders asking them to review EU economic governance.
Report

10 Principles for a Sustainable Recovery

On 2 October 2020, Finance Watch published a briefing paper to help legislators strengthen the proposed Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), which makes up the core of the EU’s EUR 750bn Next...
Policy brief

Policy brief: Debt sustainability and a sustainable Covid recovery

Overcoming the dilemma between debt and environmental sustainability in the discussions over a post Covid-19 recovery package. As EU heads of state and government discuss a Covid recovery package, Finance Watch publishes...
Speech

Speech to ECB on “Financial integration and stability”

Speech at European Central Bank (ECB) conference on Financial Integration and Stability. Press release 26 April 2012
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