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Alessandro Leipold, chief economist of the Lisbon Council, was quoted in Bloomberg Business, regarding the future of Greece in the Eurozone. “It’s not as if you get rid of Greece and then you have a really hard-core group of countries that are clearly an optimal currency area,” said Mr Leipold.

Alessandro Leipold, chief economist of the Lisbon Council and former acting director of the European department at the International Monetary Fund, comments on the Greek crisis in an article by Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

EntornoInteligente.com, a major news platform in Venezuela, reports on the findings of The 2015 Energy Productivity and Economic Prosperity Index: How Efficiency Will Drive Growth, Create Jobs And Spread Wellbeing Throughout Society, a Lisbon Council policy brief produced in collaboration with Ecofys and Quintel Intelligence. The index reveals the huge potential for societies to raise economic performance and extend significant environmental and social benefits through improved energy productivity.

In a letter published in the Financial Times, responding to the recent article by Francesco Giavazzi, in “Greeks chose poverty — let them have their way”, Harry Theoharis, member of the Greek Parliament and parliamentary spokesman of To Potami, argues that Greece has undergone unprecedented fiscal consolidation and presents results from The Euro Plus Monitor to support his argument. The Euro Plus Monitor is the authoritative competitiveness ranking jointly published each year by Berenberg Bank and the Lisbon Council. Greece ranked first in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 structural adjustment progress indicator, which measures the speed with which countries are adjusting to the challenges posed by the financial and economic crisis.

Politico reports on the speech by Catherine A. Novelli, senior co-ordinator for international information technology diplomacy and under secretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment of the United States (Department of State). Ms Novelli spoke at the High-Level Roundtable on Transatlantic Views on the Digital Economy and the Future of Internet Governance, convened by the Lisbon Council.

Corriere delle Comunicazioni, reports on The 2015 Guglielmo Marconi Lecture, given by Andrus Ansip, vice-president for the digital single market at the European Commission at The 2015 European Digital Forum.

Alessandro Leipold, chief economist of the Lisbon Council, comments on the slight pickup in eurozone inflation recorded in May on El Pais.