The COVID-19 bazooka for jobs in Europe

Luis Garicano talks to Tim Phillips about his proposal, outlined in the VoxEU.org eBook, Mitigating the Covid Economic Crisis, for a European 'bazooka' to protect jobs and wages. Funding plans he proposes are based on legislative proposals that already exist but have not yet been developed. It is now time to finish implementing them.

Topics: Covid-19 EU policies Europe's nations and regions

Tags: COVID-19

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Luis Garicano

Member of the European Parliament; CEPR Research Fellow

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