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Europe is failing to shape the global governance debate

09/06/2010 By Pedro Solbes, Richard Youngs

The EU’s enthusiasm for reshaping global economic governance has dwindled. Pedro Solbes and Richard Youngs warn that the EU not only risks the debate being shaped elsewhere but may even find itself left out of the discussion altogether.

Published in Europe's World


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Keywords

Economic crisis European Union Governance

Bio author: Pedro Solbes

With a Law degree and a PhD in Political Science from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and a diploma in European Economy from the Free University of Brussels, Solbes was Second Vice President and Minister of Economy and the Treasury from March 2004 until April 2009.

Bio author: Richard Youngs

Richard Youngs is Director General of FRIDE. He also lectures at the University of Warwick in the UK. He studied at Cambridge (BA Hons) and Warwick (MA, PhD) universities.