In this comment on future prospects for 2022, prepared for the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) Progressive Yearbook (January 26, 2022), I express cautious optimism for the future of economic governance and democracy in the European Union.

As part of a survey of the International Institute for Peace’s (IPP) advisory board and affiliated experts, I shared my comments on what the coming year would bring.

I was recently asked by the Institute of Peace in Vienna, where I am on the Executive Board, to comment on the successes and challenges in the first 100 days of President’ Biden’s administration.

I was co-signer (with seven other experts) to a comment in the French newspaper Le Monde that argued that to ensure that the ECB does more with regard to its secondary objectives, the ECB needs political guidance from the European Parliament and arguably the Council.

I was quoted on the paradigm shift in EU’s Covid-19 rescue package compared to the EU’s policy approach after the 2008 financial crisis in a Wall Street Journal article by Paul Hannon entitled, “Europe Seeks to Boost Pandemic-Damaged Economy by Spending.”

See my comments on Le Pen’s defeat in Monday’s Boston Herald.

I was quoted at length today in the Washington Post on the French elections and why populism did not triumph there.

I was quoted in an April 21, 2017 in the Russian outlet Izvestia for an article entitled “France Solves an Equation with Four Unknowns.”

On Friday, March 31, I was quoted in another Washington Post article on the upcoming French elections.

My comments appeared in yesterday’s Washington Post as part of a feature entitled “The Guesstimator: Predict the French presidential election and win a free Post subscription!”

I was quoted today in the Washington Post in an article by Paris reporter James McCauley on opportunities for France in the wake of Brexit:

I was quoted in Kaitlin Lavinder’s article on The Cipher Brief on the rise of Euro-skepticism and the growing popularity of candidates who are political outsiders.

The problem for Greece is that meeting most of the austerity focused demands won’t do anything for growth, which Greece desperately needs.

I was quoted recently in a November 6, 2014 article by Xenia Kounalaki in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.

Here are some comments I made during a recent interview on the role of Germany in the recent restructuring of the French government.