Schmidt Takes Part in Lecture on the ECB and COVID-19
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, participated in a virtual lecture on May 9, 2020 (Europe’s Day), titled “Europe at the Time of COVID-19: A View from the European Central Bank (ECB).”
The lecture was hosted by the Center for the Study of Europe at the Pardee School and featured Professor Chiara Zilioli, General Counsel at the European Central Bank, as well as Daniela Caruso, Director of the Center for the Study of Europe, and Dr. Steffen Murau, Visiting Researcher at the Global Development Policy Center at the Pardee School.
Participants discussed the establishment of the ECB, its mandate and limits, and what it can and cannot do in response to challenges facing the European Union today, most notably, the coronavirus pandemic.
A summary and recording of the lecture are available here.
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. Her latest books include Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone (2020), Resilient Liberalism in Europe’s Political Economy (co-edited, 2013), Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union (co-edited, 2011), Democracy in Europe (2006), and The Futures of European Capitalism (2002). She was recently named a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor. Read more about her here.