REOPENING EUROPE - Reopening Governance?

This is a summer feature of the Sound of Economics in cooperation
with the Reopening Europe project.

In June 2020, as Europe exited the COVID-19 Lockdown, we traveled
more than 2700 kilometres through the Netherlands, Germany,
France, Austria, Slovenia and Italy to collect voices from the
ground as the borders were reopening. 





In this introductory episode, Giuseppe Porcaro chats with Michael
Leigh. Their conversation was recorded in Florence on the 23rd of
June. Michael is a Bruegel Senior Fellow and also Academic
Director of the Masters in European Public Policy at the John
Hopkins University in Bologna. 





Michael told him about his experience locally in Bologna and they
discussed the impact of the pandemic on various levels of
government and the future of Europe.

Giuseppe gave Michael some insight about the journey and reveals
which border was the only one on the trip where the crew were
asked to produce papers.