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EU Budget: Transfers or low-interest loans?

“Ten questions and answers on the Franco-German proposal” By Jürgen Matthes, courtesy of IW Koeln    Germany and France have proposed a European Recovery Fund of €500 billion, based on large loans taken out by the EU to be transferred exclusively as grants to EU member states particularly affected by the COVID-19 crisis. The legal […]

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WHO’s Failings: Time for a New UN Health Agency?

  By Roger Bate, AEI   President Trump has halted funds to the World Health Organization (WHO). Undoubtedly he is looking to avoid blame for a slow U.S. government response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the tens of thousands of US deaths. But he also has a point. We need a global agency to combat […]