Introduction
Richard Baldwin and Beatrice Weder di MauroA scaled-up EU Solidarity Fund could step in to provide relief for affected regions and
people and beyond immediate relief would send an important signal. Jean Monnet’s
famous words that Europe will be forged in crisis might ring true once more.
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About the authors
Richard Baldwin has been Professor of International Economics at the Graduate
Institute in Geneva since 1991 and Editor-in-Chief of VoxEU.org since he founded it
in 2007. He was President/Director of CEPR (2014-2018), and a visiting professor at
Oxford (2012-2015), and MIT (2003). He has served as Managing Editor of Economic
Policy (2000 to 2005), Policy Director of CEPR (2006-2014) and Programme