Franco Bruni
Franco Bruni (b. 1948) teaches international monetary economics at Bocconi University in Milan, where he directed the Institute of Political Economy from 1994 to 2000. He is deputy director of the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) and has published essays on central banking and economic regulation. He regularly writes on the economy for La Stampa.
Updated: 26 January 2010
The new Eurogroup meeting on February 9 is not enough to banish the spectre of a Greek bankruptcy. While Athens may largely be responsible for the crisis, the EU and its partners are not blameless themselves. La Stampa argues that their confused messages and the absence of any strategy have transformed a resolvable problem into an explosive chaos. 
Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, Greece is proving to be a major headache for the European Union. Writing in La Stampa, economic analyst Franco Bruni argues that to save the credibility of the single currency, the Union needs to centralise policy, even to the point of over-riding national autonomy on economic issues.