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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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14 November 2018
Is this time different? Reflections on recent emerging-market turbulence
Since the beginning of 2018, currencies of two large emerging-market economies – Argentina and Turkey – suffered from substantial depreciation. Other
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12 November 2018
US mid-term elections and the global economy
Democrats won control of the House and Republicans held onto the Senate in the most consequential US mid-term elections in decades. Bowen Call reviews
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07 November 2018
Post-Brexit transfers of personal data: The clock is ticking
The UK government would like to keep EU-UK data transfers largely the same following the country's separation from the EU. But talks have yet to even
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06 November 2018
The consequences of Italy’s increasing dependence on domestic debt-holders
Bruegel’s updated data set of sovereign bond holdings illustrates how a rising share of Italian debt is held by domestic investors – a development wi
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05 November 2018
Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil
Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian presidential elections after a highly polarising campaign. We review economists’ and scholars’ vi
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03 November 2018
How could voter turnout influence US elections outcome?
Voting is a central pillar of democracy. The US consistently scores lower than other Western democracies in voter turnout. The authors analyse the po
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29 October 2018
The rise of 'ethical' investing
We are used to think about the value of investment as measured by financial return. But investing with an eye to environmental or social issues and, m
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22 October 2018
The United States-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement (USMCA)
While final ratification of the USMCA (also known as Nafta 2.0) is pending, we review economists’ assessment of the agreement.
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15 October 2018
The international use of the euro: What can we learn from past examples of currency internationalisation?
The recent State of the Union speech by Jean-Claude Juncker sparked a discussion about the potential wider use of the euro on the international stage.
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15 October 2018
The 2018 Nobel Prize: Growth and the environment
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded jointly to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer for integrating respectively climate change and
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10 October 2018
Are economic and political freedoms interrelated?
Democracy has not always accompanied market economy. But in modern societies, economic and political freedoms are increasingly interconnected. Democra
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09 October 2018
Improving the efficiency and legitimacy of the EU: A bottom-up approach
The 2019 European elections promise to be a watershed moment for the EU. A recent Bruegel paper made the case for restructuring the Union’s model of g
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08 October 2018
Italy’s new fiscal plans: the options of the European Commission
The Italian government has announced an increase of its deficit for 2019, breaking the commitment from the previous government to decrease it to 0.8%
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08 October 2018
Financial panic and the Great Recession
A debate on the roles of financial panic in the Great Recession has been pitting Ben Bernanke against Paul Krugman in what has been characterised as “
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02 October 2018
One club does not fit all in Europe
In this column, Jean Pisani-Ferry argues how the EU can become a more effective global player, following the Policy Brief "One size does not fit all:
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01 October 2018
Digesting the Salzburg Summit
As the moment of truth for Brexit negotiations is approaching, with the October European Council around the corner, we review opinions on the outcome
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