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The fiscal side of Europe’s energy crisis: the facts, problems and prospects
Europe needs to move beyond emergency fiscal responses and focus on structural changes to allow the EU to accelerate its decoupling from fossil fuels.
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Is Europe failing on import diversification?
Despite a goal of economic self-reliance, the European Union’s imports are generally sourced from an increasingly limited set of suppliers.
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The difficulty of designating gatekeepers under the EU Digital Markets Act
The European Commission should be more precise and transparent when designating gatekeepers under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act.
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Europe’s half a million barrels per day diesel supply question
A new European Union embargo on Russian oil products should not affect EU diesel supplies and prices, but could encourage re-routing by Russia.
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Web3: the next internet revolution
Tokenisation based on blockchain technology could bring radical changes to markets for goods and services.
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05 July 2012
The German Industry and the euro
There seems to be a division among the representatives of the German industry. While representatives of German family businesses (Familienunternehmen)
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03 July 2012
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03 July 2012
Paths to eurobonds
The defining feature of the European Monetary Union is that it was purposefully designed as a monetary union without a fiscal union. In this sense,
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02 July 2012
Blogs review: The BRIC’s slowdown
What’s at stake: We've been talking about the problems in the eurozone for a while, but the BRIC economies have recently shown worrying decelerating s
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02 July 2012
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29 June 2012
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29 June 2012
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26 June 2012
Five questions eurozone politicians will have to answer (and a research agenda for economists)
I propose five questions that eurozone politicians will have to answer. Identifying these questions is useful because in the debate on the future of t
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26 June 2012
Eine Bankenunion für Wachstum und Stabilität
In der politischen Debatte zeichnet sich ein neues Konzept zur Lösung der Leiden in der Eurozone ab: eine Bankenunion. Die Debatte über eine solche
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25 June 2012
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25 June 2012
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