Germany’s Economic Mirage
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Philippe Legrain, a former economic adviser to the president of the European Commission, is Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute and the author of Them and Us: How Immigrants and Locals Can Thrive Together (Oneworld, 2020).
Feb 13, 2024 Philippe Legrain urges NATO's European members to act immediately on the threat that the United States could abandon them.
Mar 1, 2023 Philippe Legrain sees reason to hope that the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland will help revive EU-UK relations.
Apr 19, 2022 Philippe Legrain highlights growing evidence that Russia’s attack on Ukraine has weakened its allies in Europe.
Dec 1, 2020 Philippe Legrain says the EU and member states’ governments should hold populists’ feet to the fire, calls for a Franco-German grand bargain, and explains how to ensure that welcoming refugees yields economic dividends.
Nov 16, 2020 Philippe Legrain explains why the US president's election loss is bad news for his foreign counterparts, especially in Europe.
In the United States and Europe, immigration tends to divide people into opposing camps: those who claim that newcomers undermine economic opportunity and security for locals, and those who argue that welcoming migrants and refugees is a moral and economic imperative. How should one make sense of a debate that is often based on motivated reasoning, with emotion and underlying biases affecting the selection and interpretation of evidence?