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SUMMARY:Eurosclerosis 2.0 in a changing world: from repetition to rupture
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (MA
 R.1.08\, Marshall Building)
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 29 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerPierre WunschChair
 Professor Paul De GrauweJoin us for this event with the Governor of the Ba
 nk of Belgium\, Pierre Wunsch.In this keynote talk Belgian central bank Go
 vernor Pierre Wunsch will draw on his recent policy paper and argue that E
 urope is stuck in an Eurosclerosis 2.0 period: despite a long cycle of rep
 eated “EU grand plans”\, growth has again fallen to very low levels\, 
 with a persistent innovation gap compared to the US and China. Mr Wunsch a
 sserts that the old European recipes – typically higher spending and mor
 e Europe – no longer work in a world that has fundamentally changed and 
 where EU policy ambitions have broadened to the extent that they increasin
 gly lead to internal conflicts\, such as between climate targets and trade
  openness. The inconvenient truth is that a deeper policy discussion based
  on a more realistic sense of Europe’s geopolitical importance and trans
 parency about trade-offs\, rather than a comforting narrative of “Europe
 -can-do-it-all”\, is necessary to explore ways out of Eurosclerosis. He 
 illustrates this through the lens of three policy challenges (technology\,
  institutional set-up and geopolitical positioning) but also sets this aga
 inst the background of deep societal choices: can Europe still thrive as a
  low-risk / low-return society?Meet our speaker and chair(Guillaume) Pierr
 e Wunsch is Governor at the National Bank of Belgium\, member of the ECB
 ’s Governing and General Council\, member of the European Systemic Risk 
 Board\, member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Set
 tlements\, IMF Governor\, Chairman of the Resolution College\, member of t
 he High Council for Finance\, member of the Board of Directors of the Nati
 onal Accounts Institute. He is also Chair of the Board of Governors of the
  King Baudouin Foundation.He was Director of the Strategic Finance Cell at
  the Ministry of Finance during the financial crisis of 2008. He holds a P
 hD in Economics (UCL) and a Master’s degree in Public and international 
 Affairs (Princeton).Paul de Grauwe is John Paulson Chair in European Polit
 ical Economy at the LSE European Institute.More about this eventEstablishe
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URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/events/2026-27/euro
 sclerosis-2.0-in-a-changing-world-from-repetition-to-rupture
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