Schmidt Discusses Europe’s Crisis Response During SAFE Workshop
Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, took part in a Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE (“Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe”) workshop entitled “EMU at a Crossroads?”
The goal of the workshop was to bring together state-of-the-art research covering various
aspects of ongoing economic governance reforms with contributions from political science, but
also from law and economics. Panel discussions examined the completion and implementation
of the EBU, ongoing reforms of regulating capital markets and macroprudential supervision, as
well as macroeconomic governance and fiscal policy.
During the debate portion of the conference, titled “Will this Time be Different? Lessons from the European Economic and Financial Responses to the Crisis and Future Prospects,” Schmidt discussed Europe’s differing responses to both the COVID-19 pandemic and the Eurozone conference, political and economic dynamics within Europe, as well as key findings of her recent book.
The event recording can be viewed below.
Vivien Schmidt is Professor of International Relations and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and was the first Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe, housed at the Pardee School. Schmidt’s research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory—in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis. Read more about Professor Schmidt on her faculty profile.