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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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02 December 2016
Financial implications of the Italian referendum
On Sunday, Italy will held a constitutional referendum whose implications for the political stability of the country are uncertain. Right after the re
Blog post
30 November 2016
How to put cities at the heart of EU clean energy plans
As the European Commission releases its new energy package, “Clean Energy for all Europeans”, our authors argue that cities are the key to success. Th
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29 November 2016
Tweeting the Italian referendum: the hashtag war
We are monitoring an aggregate of twitter hashtags in the run up to the Italian Constitutional referendum of 4 December 2016.
Blog post
29 November 2016
Can public support help Europe build distressed asset markets?
Distressed asset investors can relieve banks of their NPL overhang and offer valuable restructuring expertise, although banks will need to realise a f
Blog post
28 November 2016
The Italian referendum
What’s at stake: on 4 December, Italy will hold a referendum on a proposed constitutional reform approved by Parliament in April. The reform, which wa
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24 November 2016
Clean Energy for all Europeans
Speech by the European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete, at Bruegel on 24 November 2016
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23 November 2016
Income inequality has been falling in the EU
The properly measured EU-wide Gini coefficient of disposable income inequality shows that inequality in the EU as whole declined in 1994-2008, after w
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22 November 2016
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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22 November 2016
Search engines, big data and network effects
Search engines are intermediaries in a two-way market between users and advertisers. Their huge stocks of data about users and their preferences can h
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21 November 2016
Credit recovery in Spain: NPL resolution was essential, but success depended on broader sector reform
Growth in Spain again exceeded expectations this year, and bank deleveraging appears to have reached an end. Addressing non-performing loans was a pre
Blog post
21 November 2016
Trumpocalypse now: first reactions
What’s at stake: this question should probably be re-formulated as “what’s NOT at stake?” On Tuesday 8 November, the US elected Donald Trump as its ne
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17 November 2016
Renzi is going all in on the Constitutional referendum: what are the (updated) odds?
Italians are being called to the ballot boxes on 4 December to either confirm or reject Constitutional amendments put forward by the government. Aless
Blog post
17 November 2016
Stealing London’s financial crown would bring both benefits and responsibilities
After Brexit, several major cities across the EU27 are looking to take over London's financial activity. While there are plenty of benefits in hosting
Blog post
16 November 2016
Tweeting Brexit: Narrative building and sentiment analysis
Public discourse on social media was already in favour of Brexit by early summer 2015, and stayed that way until the referendum. An analysis of more t
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15 November 2016
What next for Europe's banking system?
Speech by Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis at Bruegel on 15 November 2016
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15 November 2016
Trump could give new impetus to EU-China relations
It is too early to say what the Trump administration’s trade policy will look like – but a total cut-off from Asian partners is unlikely. It would har
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