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Keynote: Europe’s Recovery Fund – A Step towards the Completion of the EMU? with Yanis Varoufakis

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Covid-19 has major impacts on the global economy. To boost the European economy, the EU is planning to invest €1.8 trillion while also paying attention on research, equality and environmental topics. Yanis Varoufakis, Member of the Hellenic Parliament and expert on financial topics, is giving his insights on the EU Covid Recovery Fund and shares its advantages and weaknesses. This event is organised in partnership with the Hellenic Society and will take place in English. The Event will be chaired by Kevin Featherstone, director of the Hellenic Observatory here at the London School of Economics. We are excited that he will guide us through this exciting talk.

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Covid-19 has major impacts on the global economy. To boost the European economy, the EU is planning to invest €1.8 trillion while also paying attention on research, equality and environmental topics.



Yanis Varoufakis, Member of the Hellenic Parliament and expert on financial topics, is giving his insights on the EU Covid Recovery Fund and shares its advantages and weaknesses. This event is organised in partnership with the Hellenic Society and will take place in English.



The Event will be chaired by Kevin Featherstone, director of the Hellenic Observatory here at the London School of Economics. We are excited that he will guide us through this exciting talk.
Yanis Varoufakis
An accidental economist Let me begin with a confession: I am a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist. But let’s take things one at a time.

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