View this email in your browser [https://wiiw.ac.at/files/mailings/event-201812041356-en.html]   Dear colleague, we cordially invite you to the following event: POLITICAL CONSTRAINTS OF EMU REFORM: WHAT IS FEASIBLE, WHEN, AND WILL IT BE ENOUGH? THOMAS WIESER non-resident scholar, Bruegel, former President of the Euro Working Group and of the European Financial Committee of the EU MONDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2018, 5:30 PM (17:30 CET) wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) Policy Perspectives for European Integration [https://wiiw.ac.at/policy-perspectives-for-european-integration-es-15.html] The present work strand of EMU Reforms has been an ongoing project for nearly a decade, and will continue for at least as long. Reforms have been undertaken against a vast background of analytical and policy papers going back decades. Progress has nevertheless been slow and uneven. To a certain extent there is genuine lack of intellectual agreement, but more importantly political approaches towards a stable and efficient monetary union differ across Member States. I shall discuss these issues against the background of the issues described in the so-called Four Presidents’ Report. How far have we gotten, and what are the medium term prospects for further reforms? What are the political forces that push, and what are the political forces that impede progress? ...more [https://wiiw.ac.at/political-constraints-of-emu-reform-what-is-feasible-when...] WE KINDLY ASK YOU TO REGISTER [https://wiiw.ac.at/bc-e-er-414.html] for the event. Best regards, Sandor Richter [https://wiiw.ac.at/sandor-richter-s-14.html] _Organiser_            Robert Stehrer [https://wiiw.ac.at/robert-stehrer-s-16.html] _Scientific Director_ wiiw The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, Austria wiiw@wiiw.ac.at, wiiw.ac.at [https://wiiw.ac.at] T: +43 1 533 66 10 [tel:+4315336610] [http://www.facebook.com/wiiw.economic.studies] [http://www.twitter.com/wiiw_news] [http://www.linkedin.com/company/vienna-institute-for-international-economic-...] [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyNuSfsgzgBsIf7AaH8Vk-Q] [https://wiiw.ac.at/rss.php] Copyright ©2018 wiiw, all rights reserved.