Euro area accession countries in the context of the pandemic

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Euro area accession countries in the context of the pandemic

Testimony before the European Parliament on the subject of euro area accession.

Publishing date: 19 November 2020
Authors: Zsolt Darvas

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On November 19th, 2020 Bruegel senior fellow Zsolt Darvas gave a presentation and participated in the discussion with MEPs on ‘Euro area accession countries in the context of the pandemic’, at the meeting of the Euro Accession Countries Working Group of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON).

About the authors

Zsolt Darvas

Zsolt Darvas is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel and a part-time Senior Research Fellow at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He joined Bruegel in 2008 as a Visiting Fellow, and became a Research Fellow in 2009 and a Senior Fellow in 2013.

From 2005 to 2008, he was the Research Advisor of the Argenta Financial Research Group in Budapest. Before that, he worked at the research unit of the Central Bank of Hungary (1994-2005) where he served as Deputy Head.

Zsolt holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Corvinus University of Budapest where he teaches courses in Econometrics but also at other institutions since 1994. His research interests include macroeconomics, international economics, central banking and time series analysis.