To strengthen the euro’s international role, Europe must “do its homework” by deepening the internal market, integrating capital markets, preserving free trade and “jointly financing public goods, such as defence, [which] would help establish a secure and liquid pool of EU public debt”, ECB President Christine Lagarde told European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on the evening of Monday 6 October.
Asked by Damian Boeselager (Greens/EFA, German) to...