Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras presented four proposals for enhancing the European Union’s strategic autonomy during a lecture at the Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University on Tuesday.
This was the first in a series of lectures Tsipras is to deliver at the American university.
In a discussion moderated by Professor Peter Hall, the former prime minister highlighted the need to strengthen the EU’s strategic autonomy while maintaining strong relations with the United States.
According to Tsipras, the EU should raise the debt limit for European economies and ensure that the resulting fiscal space benefits all of Europe, rather than just the domestic businesses of major economies.
He also proposed establishing a European ministry of finance to issue common European debt for investment and further deepening the internal market in line with the Letta and Draghi reports.