Europe | Monetary Policy & Inflation | Politics & Geopolitics
Ep. 96: Shahin Vallée on Europe’s Geopolitical Risks, ECB Policy and French Elections
- By Bilal Hafeez
- 1 min read
Shahin Vallée is head of the Geo-Economics Program at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). Before the German Council, Shahin was a senior economist for Soros Fund Management, and also served as a personal advisor to George Soros. Prior to that, he was the economic advisor to Emmanuel Macron at the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance, where he focused on European economic affairs. Between 2012 and 2014, Shahin was the economic advisor to President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy. In this podcast we discuss:
- How Europe fits into the US-China conflict
- Europe’s nuclear energy dilemma
- Russia/Ukraine risks
- Chances of Euro break-up
- If the EU fiscal policy changed after COVID
- Whether the ECB will hike in 2022
- Whether Macron wins the French elections in April
- Germany in a post-Merkel world
- Books that influenced Shahin: Lords of Finance (Ahamed) and The Alchemy Of Finance (Soros)
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You can read the transcript for this podcast here.
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