To avoid recession and reduce the social costs of the crisis, Europe needs an innovative monetary policy that is as coordinated as possible with fiscal aid packages.

Edited by Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran, this new Veblen policy note proposes an instrument inspired by "helicopter money" and current experiments in central bank digital currencies (CBDC).

Multinational corporations involved in environmental or human rights-related scandals, such as the Bhopal disaster or the collapse of the Rana Plaza, have often enjoyed total impunity. A consortium of NGOs and civil society organizations has been formed in France to defend the idea of a law in an attempt to force them to take responsibility.