Background
Sapir, André was born on June 13, 1950 in Brussels. Son of Hirsz and Dvoira (Simonovici) Sapir.
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The European Union faces difficult challenges: to go on with further enlargement; to reconcile radically different views on the appropriate scope and depth of integration; and to close the democratic deficit and revive public support for the Union. Written by a distinguished team of academics from six countries to inform public opinion before the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference, CEPR's sixth Monitoring European Integration Report argues for significant economic, political and legal reforms of the Union to meet these challenges. Flexible Integration is a model of reform designed to overcome the current stalemate between federalists and anti-federalists. It introduces more flexibility to accommodate the heterogeneous interests in Europe without risking the gains achieved through past integration. Flexible integration combines firm commitment by all members to a common supranational common base - including a well-defined set of competences related to the Single Market - with optional integration in other areas through open partnerships. Within these ramifications, the report discusses a number of specific reforms, including: how to introduce a hierarchy of European Law, making the Union's legal structure more flexible and transparent; how to improve enforcement of the Single Market, realising the vision underlying the four freedoms; how to achieve macroeconomic coordination without the tarnished exchange rate mechanism, while accommodating the different views on the single currency; and how to make political decision-making more efficient and legitimate, representing and balancing different European interests and making decision-makers more directly accountable to the citizens of Europe.
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Sapir, André was born on June 13, 1950 in Brussels. Son of Hirsz and Dvoira (Simonovici) Sapir.
Bachelor, Free U. Brussels, 1972; Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1975; Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1977.
He is also a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, the Brussels-based think tank. He then was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from 1977 to 1982, before returning to his native Brussels. From 2001 to 2004 he was economic adviser to European Commission President Romano Prodi.
As such, he was the coordinator of the landmark report on Europe's growth policy known as the Sapir Report. He then served until 2009 in the group of Economic Policy Advisors to Prodi's successor José Manuel Barroso.
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He is also a fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a founding Editorial Board Member of the World Trade Review, published by Cambridge University Press and the World Trade Organisation.
Married Debarati Guha, October 3, 1977.