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In the wake of this weekend's elections in France, Greece, and other parts of Europe, headlines across the globe proclaimed that voters had delivered a major anti-austerity message to their governments. With European economies lagging and U.S. markets responding negatively, could this be the beginning of a sea change for economic policies in the Eurozone and beyond? We asked economist Kent Hughes, director of the Wilson Center's Program on America and the Global Economy, to provide analysis and perspective on what political change in France and other countries might mean.

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Kent Hughes

Kent Hughes

Public Policy Fellow;
Former Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Global Europe Program

The Global Europe Program addresses vital issues affecting the European continent, US-European relations, and Europe’s ties with the rest of the world. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues: digital transformation, climate, migration, global governance. We also examine Europe’s relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our program activities cover a wide range of topics, from the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE to European energy security, trade disputes, challenges to democracy, and counter-terrorism. The Global Europe Program’s staff, scholars-in-residence, and Global Fellows participate in seminars, policy study groups, and international conferences to provide analytical recommendations to policy makers and the media.  Read more