Last week, Valeria Ronzitti, CEEP General Secretary, and Tor Hatlevoll, Chair of CEEP Macroeconomics Task Force, addressed the Macro-Economic Dialogue at political level, in the presence of, amongst others, Olaf Scholz, German Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance, Christine Lagarde, European Central Bank President, Pascal Donohue, Eurogroup President, and Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commission Executive Vice-President for an Economy that Works for People.

Addressing the EU responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Valeria Ronzitti, CEEP General Secretary, commented:

“We believe that short term work schemes are useful in mitigating the impact of the crisis on employment levels. We call for all Member States to maintain short term work schemes. Together with the temporary framework for state aid and the SGP escape clause, these short-term work schemes remain central to mitigate the ongoing crisis.”

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