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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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31 March 2017
Central bank communication in a low interest rate environment
Speech by Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at an event organised by Bruegel, Brussels, 31 March 2017
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30 March 2017
The UK’s Brexit bill: what are the possible liabilities?
The EU-UK financial settlement will be a complex part of the Brexit negotiations. Here the authors estimate that at end-2018 the EU will have outstand
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30 March 2017
Brexit bill negotiators must answer these 12 questions
Is Brexit a divorce, or is the UK leaving a club? This is the first question to answer as negotatiors discuss the key aspects of the EU-UK financial s
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29 March 2017
Who would bet on currency unions after EMU crisis?
The European Monetary Union (EMU) was founded with the idea that nominal convergence would bring real convergence, but structural differences between
Blog post
28 March 2017
29 charts that explain Brexit
From financial services to the creative industry, from trade to migration, this selection of charts maps out the troubled waters of Brexit, and provid
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28 March 2017
A call for uniform sovereign exposure limits
Banks’ sovereign bond holdings were at the heart of the euro-sovereign crisis. The concentration of domestic bonds created a vicious cycle between gov
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27 March 2017
Why was the last TLTRO take-up unexpectedly high?
The final round of TLTRO financing was an unexpected hit with euro area banks. The aim of the programme is to encourage banks to increase lending to t
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27 March 2017
The American opioid epidemics
What’s at stake: The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declares that the country is “in the midst of an unprecedented opioid epidemic”.
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24 March 2017
European spring - Trust in the EU and democracy is recovering
Trust in the EU and satisfaction with democracy are returning in southern European countries, where citizens’ confidence in European institutions was
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20 March 2017
Alice in gender-gap land
What’s at stake: The International Women’s Day on 8 March drew attention to the gender gap again, both in pay and in employment. Ongoing research on t
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17 March 2017
The inflation basket case
Inflation in the euro area has finally reached 2%. But Draghi is right to warn that the underlying dynamics do not point to this being a self-sustaini
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15 March 2017
The EU antitrust case: no big deal for Gazprom
Earlier this week, the European Commission presented the draft compromise reached with Gazprom regarding the antitrust case launched in April. Simone
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14 March 2017
High expectations for 5G confront practical realities
The next wave of mobile network innovation is provoking great excitement in the industry. And indeed, there is substantial potential for improvement.
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13 March 2017
Taxing robots?
What’s at stake: “More human than human”, was the motto guiding the Tyrell Corporation’s engineering of biorobotic androids, in 1982’s Blade Runner. F
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10 March 2017
Debunking 5 myths about Frexit
French elections are fast approaching and the debate on euro membership is now in full swing. ‘Frexit’ supporters promise that the benefits of leaving
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09 March 2017
An update: Sovereign bond holdings in the euro area – the impact of QE
Since the ECB’s announcement of its QE programme in January 2015, national central banks have been buying government and national agency bonds. In thi
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