The Centre

With Ignazio Angeloni, Adviser to the Executive Board, European Central Bank; David Marsh, author of The euro: the politics of the new global currency; Derek Scott, Deputy Chairman, Open Europe. Chaired by Paul Adamson and organised with Open Europe

This discussion will assess the performance and prospects for the euro as it enters its second decade. The financial crisis has sparked renewed debate in non-eurozone countries – from Poland to Iceland – on the merits of joining the single currency. While euro membership has been seen as a bulwark against the currency storms that have battered other European countries since the crisis broke, the underlying tensions within the eurozone persist. Will the recession diminish or exacerbate them?