Shared Perspectives

The workshop Shared Perspectives brings together top academics with practitioners and policymakers, to build a realistic ‘big picture’ of two central challenges facing the EU: how to manage the ambitious transition to a carbon-neutral economy, and how to navigate macroeconomic governance in an era when the macroeconomic landscape has changed and old orthodoxies are being questioned. Shared Perspectives promotes a structured yet highly interactive discussion between researchers and practitioners; between economic and political viewpoints; between macroeconomics and climate economics; between perspectives from different member states. The first three sessions bring together distinguished speakers who will give brief introductions on macroeconomic governance, climate policy and the interaction of the two (details in the attached programme). In each session, after a short initial presentation by each speaker, they will be asked to address each others’ main arguments, trying to reconcile diverse views and formulate a shared understanding on the most important problems, and of points of agreement and disagreement. The final panel discussion builds on the (primarily) economic insights of the first three sessions and widens the lens to bring in more political perspectives.