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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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18 December 2015
Non-performing loans in Italy and selected European countries
Vulnerabilities in the Italian banking system are causing fears of a banking crisis to surface.
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16 December 2015
A vade mecum for Italy’s G7 presidency
Following Germany this year and Japan in 2016, Italy will assume the rotating presidency of the G7 in 2017. However, even the global governance aficio
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15 December 2015
Too early to celebrate: What markets tell us about the credibility of the Paris climate agreement
The price of carbon emissions has decreased markedly since the first draft of the Paris Agreement has been released. The decrease in the price of futu
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15 December 2015
Data transfers under the threat of terrorist attacks
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere have created an atmosphere of insecurity and fear among the citizens of the main European capitals
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14 December 2015
The predictability of political extremism
What’s at stake: The rise of the extreme right in the latest French election has mostly been treated as surprising or reflecting special circumstances
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14 December 2015
COP21: An important turn on a long journey
The Paris Agreement has been hailed as a turning point and a huge success in the international fight against climate change. Its big achievement is th
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11 December 2015
Opaque Europe: financial supervisory transparency, why it’s important, and how to improve it
“Financial supervisory transparency” has been on the agenda of international financial institutions for some time. It concerns the public availability
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10 December 2015
Italian institutional reforms: will this time be different?
The government of Matteo Renzi wants to reform the law for electing the national parliament. It also wants to change the role of the upper house, the
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08 December 2015
The remarkable case of Spanish immigration
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, Spain experienced one of the largest waves of migration in European history.
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07 December 2015
The puzzle of technical dis-employment and productivity slowdown
What’s at stake: Larry Summers made an important speech a few weeks ago at a Peterson Institute conference on the productivity slowdown arguing it is
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03 December 2015
Cross-border commuters and trips: the relevance of Schengen
Almost 1.7 million Schengen residents were cross-border commuters in 2014.
These charts show data on commuting in the Schengen area and intra-EU tri
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03 December 2015
An overview of Bruegel scholars’ contributions on Energy Union
Bruegel scholars have contributed numerous ideas to the Energy Union concept – and to all five dimensions of the policy package. Georg Zachmann and Si
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01 December 2015
Have central banks lost their ability to control inflation?
The potential effects of global integration on inflation dynamics, and whether this could affect the ability of central banks to fulfil their mandates
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30 November 2015
Egypt: The catalyst for a new Eastern Mediterranean gas hub?
The recent discovery of the large Zohr gas field in offshore Egypt - the largest ever made in the Mediterranean Sea - might completely change the reg
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30 November 2015
Unlearning economic paradigms
What’s at stake: Both the crisis, its aftermath, and the empirical econ revolution have changed our understanding of economics. Conventional wisdoms a
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26 November 2015
Real exchange rates in conflict zones
Several countries experiencing conflict have been able to maintain a stable nominal exchange rate and thereby their real exchange rates were either st
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