Moritz Rehm

Europe’s top central banker is expected to exit before April 2027 to give Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz the chance to pick her successor. ft.trib.al/RgAMpRb

Institutional foundations of financial statecraft: EU assistance to Ukraine and beyond The European Union’s (EU) role as the largest provider of financial support to the Ukrainian government since Russia’s full-scale invasion challenges widely held conceptions about its lack of finan...

Just published in @ripejournal.bsky.social : "Institutional foundations of financial statecraft: EU assistance to Ukraine and beyond" by Lukas Spielberger and I!

Is the EU on its way to becoming an autonomous actor capable of exercising financial statecraft ... ?

doi.org/10.1080/0969...

From Capital Markets Union to Savings and Investments Union: Why the EU keeps changing the story on financial integration By David Howarth (University of Luxembourg) and Lucia Quaglia (University of Bologna) Financial market integration has been a core objective of European inte

Why does the EU keep rebranding financial integration? From CMU to the new Savings & Investments Union, the policy stays largely the same but the narrative shifts to chase support. A new JCMS 'Ideas on Europe' blog unpacks why.

Read it here: jcms.ideasoneurope.eu/2026/01/15/f...

#TheEu #Blog #JCMS

„(…)college is not in the information transfer business; we are in the identity formation business.“

Rising Attachment to the European Union (2006–2023). The Impact of Input and Output Legitimacy Abstract. It is commonly assumed—and feared—that European institution building proceeds faster than European identity development can follow. This would le

Ever more Europeans feel emotionally attached to the EU, consider it as democratically legitimate as well as producing positive outcomes.

doi.org/10.1093/ijpo...

Brussels to seek more joint debt in EU budget plan European Commission to propose mechanism to issue common bonds to fund member states in emergencies

New 🚨The European Commission plans to propose a new joint debt instrument to tap capital markets in times of crisis, as part of the upcoming EU budget. Read it in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/2f12...

The #EU is becoming a sovereign-style borrower. Commission @ec.europa.eu borrowing will reach 1 trillion EUR by 2027. For the time after #NGEU, #SURE, and #SAFE, the Commission plans to propose a permanent debt instrument for crisis management, reports Paola Tamma @paolatamma.bsky.social

In our recent article in @jei-publication.bsky.social David Howarth and I analyse the ESM's role as backstop to the SRF. Our finding illustrates that the inclusion of the permanence of legal framework clause in the ESM's treaty reform has the potential to undermine QMV in banking union.