Jacob Funk Kirkegaard and Adam S. Posen lead the first panel of the conference “Charting Europe’s Path Forward,” followed by discussion with Harvard University professor Jeffry Frieden. The panel focus is on state building and the rise continental-scale fiscal institutions. Anna Gelpern and Jeremie Cohen-Setton, PIIE, and Emory University professor Caroline Fohlin focus on US lessons for the European banking union and regional convergence of business cycles during the second panel of the conference “Charting Europe’s Path Forward”, held at the Peterson Institute for International Economics on February 13, 2018. For more information, visit: piie.com/events/charting-europes-path-forward