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Institute, i am delighted to host a conversation today was the director general for economic and Financial Affairs at the european commission, he has been there since they were 2020. Our conversation today will be about the economy of the European Union and the European Union with a response to the covid19 crisis. We will also touch upon the European Union and commissions broader Economic Policy agenda as we hopefully recover from the crisis, its evolving fiscal institutions and its management of the european macroeconomy. So it should be an interesting conversation and obviously particular important given the worldwide economic crisis we have found ourselves in. Let me introduce i guess today, he is the director general for economic of Financial Affairs in the european commission, prior to his current job he was director general for structural reform support and will touch a little bit on while i imagine. And prior to that he was Deputy Director general for economic and Financial Affa
Union Economic Policy response due to the covid19 crisis. Well also catch up on the European Union, European Commissions broader Economic Policy agenda as we hopefully recover from the crisis, its evolving fiscal institutions and its management of the european macro economy. So it should be an interesting conversation, particularly of particular importance given the worldwide economic crisis weve suddenly found ourselves in. Let me introduce my guest today. As i said, director general for Economic Affairs in the European Commission prior to his current job, he was for reform support and well touch on that as well, i imagine and prior to that he was Deputy Director general for economic and financial affairs. And did work extensively on the funds which well talk about as well. And anyway, with that introduction out of the way, i wanted to start out by just talking about the pay in which the crisis has unfolded over the past few months in europe and especially what actions have been taken
I am. So u. S. National guard troops are being deployed to a city in new york state now thought to be the center of the corona Virus Outbreak in the country new rochelle north of new york city has been sealed off it has the largest known cluster of cases in the u. S. Troops will be sent in to help disinfect areas and quarantine people meanwhile the Trump Administration is drafting an economic stimulus package to ease the burden of the outbreak expected to include payroll tax relief and paid family leave for small and medium sized businesses as get the latest from roslyn jordan in washington d. C. Ross tell us more for us about the measures being imposed in new rochelle which has now the largest cluster of cases in the u. S. Thats right foley at least 109 confirmed cases in the city of new rochelle the state Governor Andrew Cuomo expects that number to go up and so in order to try to stop the rapid spread of coronavirus in this Bedroom Community of new york city the governor has ordered