European Economic Governance: Still Not Fit for Purpose?

On Nov. 20, I went to the University of Padua to give a talk for the seminar series of the Department of Political Science on economic governance in the EU, with a focus on the reform of the fiscal rules.  The talk—“European Economic Governance: Still not fit for purpose?”—was based on two papers, one updating a  policy brief on the fiscal rules published in July 2023, the other a new paper considering  grand theories of European integration and how these help explain (or not) the case of the reform of the Eurozone rules over time, including the Eurozone crisis, the Covid 19 pandemic, and the most recent return to only slightly modified rules for the Eurozone.