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Author: Lukas Pietilä

  • Frankfurt’s verdict – the Eurosystem’s economic outlook

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    It’s that exciting time again – the ECB’s main decision-making body, its Governing Council, has set the key interest rates in the euro area. The European Central Bank’s president, Christine Lagarde, announced in a press release last week the Governing Council’s latest outlook for monetary conditions within the Eurosystem, strongly stating the direction of monetary…

  • Climate change in an industrialized world

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    Immediate and decisive action is required to reduce anthropological emissions and to mitigate the impacts that are shaping our world today. With rapidly declining biodiversity, increasing compound extreme events and an ever-growing divide between the rich and poor, ignorance is not an excuse and willful inaction is a crime. Nevertheless, a turbulent economic climate and…