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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.
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.
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.
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.
Web3: the next internet revolution
Tokenisation based on blockchain technology could bring radical changes to markets for goods and services.
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24 April 2019
Does attaching environmental issues to trade agreements boost support for trade liberalisation?
This blog post shows that the omission of environmental issues in the new EU-US trade negotiations may make it challenging to pass the trade agreement
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18 April 2019
The next step of the Belt and Road Initiative: Multilateralisation with Chinese characteristics
The increasingly broad objective of China's Belt and Road Initiative has attracted the attention not only from the BRI members, but also from other ma
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16 April 2019
Getting better all the time: The benefits of learning for decarbonisation
The technological development will dramatically impact decarbonisation cost. In this blog post, the author suggests that national decarbonisation stra
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15 April 2019
Why China's current account balance approaches zero
China’s current account is projected to be balanced within the next few years. Observers disagree whether this is due to structural factors or Chinese
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08 April 2019
Is this blog post legal (under new EU copyright law)?
How new EU rules on using snippets from news publishers and on copyright infringement liability might affect circulation of information, revenue distr
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03 April 2019
How visible are independent fiscal institutions in public debate?
Independent fiscal institutions have no formal powers to act and have to rely on soft power to influence the budgetary process. This blog post investi
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01 April 2019
Secular stagnation and the future of economic stabilisation
Larry Summers’ and Łukasz Rachel’s most recent study documents a secular fall in neutral real rates in advanced economies. According to the authors, t
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28 March 2019
Considering intra-EU migration and countries’ net inflows
The authors here review the latest EU migration figures. Southern, eastern, and central Europe have broadly experienced net losses in cumulative intra
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25 March 2019
Lockin' tax haven's door
Tax avoidance and evasion harm the public coffers, and increase inequality and poverty. This post summarises the recent debate on several aspects of t
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21 March 2019
The shadow of Brexit: Guessing the economic damage to the UK
Under a set of assumptions, this post concludes that UK real income and investment would have been 4% and 6% larger respectively had it not been for t
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20 March 2019
Talking about Europe: Le Monde 1944-2018
An ongoing research project is seeking to quantify and analyse national printed media discourses about Europe over the decades since the end of the se
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11 March 2019
The Alstom-Siemens merger and the need for European champions
What’s at stake: The European Commission blocked the merger between Alstom and Siemens, triggering the ire of the French and German governments. A Fra
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06 March 2019
Russia's foreign policy does not help its economic modernisation
In the highly interdependent modern world, a country’s economy and its foreign policy are strongly linked. A country’s foreign-policy ambitions should
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04 March 2019
The possible Chinese-US trade deal
The future of Sino-American relations after the incoming end of trade talks between Beijing and Washington. We review opinions in the English-speaking
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26 February 2019
What to look out for in the latest European Semester package
Implementation of the European Commission’s country-specific policy recommendations (CSRs) is at a low rate overall. Whether this trend has continued,
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26 February 2019
The European Union must change its supervisory architecture to fight money laundering
Money laundering scandals at EU banks have become pervasive. The authors here detail the weaknesses the current AML architecture's fundamental weaknes
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