OMFIF, Political Risk Series, November 20th, 2018, approx. 35 minutes.
Political risk series: 'Where we are on fears for euro breakup'. Danae Kyriakopoulou, chief economist at OMFIF, is joined by Hans-Werner Sinn, president emeritus of the Information and Forschung Institute and professor at the University of Munich. They discuss the euro area's macroeconomic outlook, focusing on the state of the banking sector and non-performing loans. They also look at financial imbalances between core and periphery economies, political polarisation and the reform agenda to deepen economic and monetary union.