To challenge youth unemployment government policy has to be adapted to local realities. Merely to target European resources to regions where youth unemployment rate is above 25%, is inappropriate.

It’s important to consider that the euro crisis still is awaiting fundamental answers. The ECB only bought time. Measures to reduce the fundamental instability of the Western economies are still needed.

There is great animation over the introduction of “covered bonds” in Belgium for the financing of banks.

The intervention of the European commission is to be considered a sign of progress on the road towards European integration and a positive consequence of the current crisis.

Laurent Hanseeuw recalls the issue of factor mobility, and labor mobility in particular, in the constitution of an optimal currency zone. When comparing to the US, European workers are reluctant to move, even in their own state.