On Thursday 18 March (11.30-13.30) José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, will be the keynote speaker at a joint CEPS-CER event to launch the 10th annual Lisbon Scorecard of the Centre for European Reform. Simon Tilford, Chief Economist at CER, Karel Lannoo, CEO of CEPS, and Ann Mettler, Executive Director of the Lisbon Council will then assess the prospects for the recently unveiled 2020 Strategy.

On Monday 15 March, CEPS will host the launch event of a joint CEPS-Assonime Task Force Report on banking crisis resolution. Stefano Micossi, Director-General of Assonime, and Daniel Gros, Director of CEPS, will be presenting the main conclusions of the report, while Elisa Ferreira, MEP and Member of the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis will act as discussant.

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that "Germany expressed support for creating a "European Monetary Fund" that could bail out indebted nations in the euro zone, showing how Greece's debt crisis is forcing Europe to rethink the institutional design of its common-currency area". The proposal, which, according to another paper has been "widely discussed among EU diplomats" was launched by CEPS Director Daniel Gros and Deutsche Bank's Chief Economist Thomas Mayer in this recent CEPS Policy Brief.