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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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07 February 2017
Bruegel conference discusses strategies to tackle Europe’s NPL crisis
Bad loans and private sector debt distress are widely acknowledged to hold back investment and growth in Europe. It was good, then, to hear ECB Vice-P
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07 February 2017
How good a shield is Privacy Shield?
Privacy Shield was put in place in 2016 to ensure that transfers of personal data from the EU to the US would be in compliance with European Union pri
Blog post
06 February 2017
Is Germany a currency manipulator?
What’s at stake: the Financial Times reports that Peter Navarro, head of the US’s National Trade Council, has accused Germany of currency manipulation
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03 February 2017
Resolving Europe’s NPL burden: challenges and benefits
Keynote speech by Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB, at Bruegel event: "Tackling Europe's non-performing loans crisis: restructuring debt, r
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03 February 2017
The EU must stand ready to confront US leadership
This is not the first time that the United States has antagonised Europe. And Europe can provide an effective response to such external challenges whe
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01 February 2017
Border adjustment tax could help Europe find common voice on Trump
The Trump administration seems more than willing to break with liberal orthodoxy on trade. Could this lead them to introduce a "destination tax", esse
Blog post
30 January 2017
Demonetisation: India’s stress test
What were the reasons for the Indian government's sudden decision to remove 86% of hard currency from circulation? Will Modi's monetary intervention a
Blog post
30 January 2017
Climate change and financial markets
What’s at stake: Ever since the 2016 Paris Agreement to reduce emissions was signed, researchers have been looking at the impact that moves towards a
Blog post
27 January 2017
Trade flows between the US, UK and EU27: what goes where?
As US President Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa May meet in Washington, Bruegel researchers look at bilateral trade flows between the US, UK and E
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24 January 2017
The future of EU trade policy
Speech by EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström at Bruegel on 24 January 2017.
Blog post
23 January 2017
Will better insolvency standards help Europe’s debt deleveraging?
Insolvency regimes in the euro area are on the whole costly, lengthy, and recover little value. A new directive proposed by the Commission sensibly ai
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23 January 2017
Tariffs and the American poor
What’s at stake: much has been said and debated — during the US election and beyond — about the distributional impact of free trade on the disadvanta
Blog post
20 January 2017
Amsterdam’s boom-bust housing market needs its own mortgage limits
House prices in the Netherlands are on the rise again. But at the local level the pattern is very uneven: house prices in major cities are rising fast
Blog post
18 January 2017
Brexit and the UK creative industry
The creative sector is important for the UK in terms of employment and share of exports. However, it has mostly been overlooked in Brexit negotiation
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16 January 2017
The economic effects of migration
What’s at stake: migration is currently a very hot topic in both the US and the EU. Immigration issues have come to the forefront due to the problem o
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13 January 2017
The Italian Lira: the exchange rate and employment in the ERM
In the decades before Italy joined the Euro, the Lira was devalued many times relative to the Deutschmark. Were these re-alignments accompanied by lon
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