In The Room

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• "Market pressure was growing by the day" with Charles Dallara

  March 19, 2024 · 38 min

  Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance from 1993–2013, talks about his crisis memoir: Euroshock: How the Largest Debt Restructuring in History Helped Save Greece and Preserve the Eurozone (Rodin Books…

• "We couldn't accept that Spain could do better than Italy" with Vincenzo Visco

  June 18, 2023 · 46 min

  Four months after taking office in May 1996, Italian prime minister Romano Prodi flew to Valencia for a bilateral summit with his Spanish counterpart José María Aznar. Germany, France and the EU's core members were getting ready to create…

• "He was definitely not amused" with Lex Hoogduin

  May 5, 2023 · 50 min

  On 1 June, the European Central Bank will celebrate its 25th birthday. After its tumultuous teenage years, it's easy to forget its first uncertain steps. In this new episode of In The Room, Lex Hoogduin looks back to his time as right-hand…

• "Now maybe we're a bit spoiled" with Klaus Regling

  March 4, 2023 · 44 min

  As the man who built and ran Europe's financial "firewalls" (the EFSF and ESM) from 2010-2022, Klaus Regling was a central figure in the euro crisis. In this new episode of In The Room, he looks back not just on those 12 tumultuous years…

• "We backed down and we started again" with Andrew McDowell

  February 17, 2023 · 50 min

  In 2011, a new Irish coalition took office under Enda Kenny only four months after its predecessor was forced to seek a sovereign bailout. It was left to the Kenny government to pick up the pieces after the collapse of the debt-fuelled…

• "Trust was thin on the ground" with Georges Heinrich

  January 6, 2023 · 1 hr 4 min

  As the right-hand man to Jean-Claude Juncker (chairman of the Eurogroup from 2005-13) and vice president of the Euro Working Group from 2011-14, Georges Heinrich found himself in the eye of the euro's financial storm in his late-30s…

• "Look into my eyes: you're gonna go bankrupt" with Thomas Wieser

  December 9, 2022 · 1 hr 3 min

  Eurozone finance ministers coordinate policy through the Eurogroup and its engine room is the Euro Working Group - a committee of top treasury officials from member states and the European Commission. Elected as the EWG's first full-time…

• "Reality took its revenge" with Ramon Fernandez

  November 11, 2022 · 42 min

  Ramon Fernandez, the director-general of the French Treasury 2009-14, reminisces on the euro crisis years – the early signals that “something was wrong” in Greece, the calamitous Deauville summit, managing two power centres in Berlin…