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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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03 March 2016
Fog in the Channel: Brexit through the eyes of international trade
As we approach the referendum that will decide whether the UK continues to be a member of the European Union, we review the UK’s trade position. If Br
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02 March 2016
Central banks: from omnipotence to impotence?
Like the price of financial assets, the market assessment of the capacity of central banks to achieve their price stability objective fluctuates betwe
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01 March 2016
Services in European manufacturing: servinomics explained
Making the manufacturing sector more competitive is vital to restore economic growth in Europe. Changing business models to sell services as well as p
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29 February 2016
The Sanders controversy
What’s at stake: A recent study claiming that Sanders policies would produce 5.3 percent growth a year over the next decade has been at the center of
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22 February 2016
Uber and the economic impact of sharing economy platforms
Consumers enjoy the cheaper taxi services provided by Uber, but the company has proven divisive among taxi drivers. Regulators should allow Uber to op
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22 February 2016
The impotency of central banks
What’s at stake: The negative market reaction to the latest efforts to provide further monetary stimulus has generated an important discussion on whet
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18 February 2016
Child benefits for EU migrants in the UK
Statistics referenced by the House of Commons suggest that 0.26 percent of total UK child benefit claims are paid to EU migrants whose children live i
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17 February 2016
The Eurozone needs less heterogeneity
Misalignments of real exchange rates continue to be the most visible and painful symptom of asymmetric shocks within the Eurozone. An important factor
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17 February 2016
Hard times for Italian banks
Silvia Merler and Marcello Minenna review the structure of of the recently adopted Italian guarantees scheme, and look at solutions implemented in oth
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16 February 2016
European Deposit Insurance: a response to Ludger Schuknecht
Nicolas Véron argues that there are two major oversights in Dr Schuknecht’s anti-European Deposit Insurance outburst, respectively about deposit insur
Blog post
12 February 2016
EU migration crisis: facts, figures and disappointments
Attempts to stem the flow of refugees to Europe have so far had little success. Two months into 2016, we take a detailed look at the numbers of the re
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10 February 2016
Can mass migration boost innovation and productivity?
The long-term impact of migration on innovation and productivity growth in host countries is a neglected issue in the current debate on refugees. Rese
Blog post
09 February 2016
Iran faces a bumpy road back to global energy markets
Iran’s energy sector is vital for the country’s economy. Now that sanctions have been lifted, the government must reform the oil sector to encourage i
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08 February 2016
Speech by Miguel Arias Cañete on EU’s climate and energy policies after COP21
Speech held at Bruegel event on "How will the Paris agreement impact EU climate and energy policies?", on 8 February 2016.
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04 February 2016
European banking union: should the 'outs' join in?
To address coordination failures between national institutions regulating banks, we need supranational policies. Banking union encourages further int
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01 February 2016
Belarus: time to reform
Belarus must speed up its transition to a market economy, in order to return to growth and to avoid a new balance of payments crisis. But such reform
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