REOPENING EUROPE - Reopening Governance?

<div>This is a summer feature of the Sound of Economics in cooperation with the Reopening Europe project. <br> <br> In June 2020, as Europe exited the COVID-19 Lockdown, we traveled more than 2700 kilometres through the Netherlands, Germany, France, Austria, Slovenia and Italy to collect voices from the ground as the borders were reopening. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>In this introductory episode, Giuseppe Porcaro chats with Michael Leigh. Their conversation was recorded in Florence on the 23rd of June. Michael is a Bruegel Senior Fellow and also Academic Director of the Masters in European Public Policy at the John Hopkins University in Bologna. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Michael told him about his experience locally in Bologna and they discussed the impact of the pandemic on various levels of government and the future of Europe. <br> <br> Giuseppe gave Michael some insight about the journey and reveals which border was the only one on the trip where the crew were asked to produce papers. </div> <div> <br> <br> </div>