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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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21 October 2015
Inflation expectations and global risks: the need for ECB action
The ECB will have its next monetary decision meeting on Thursday. Instead of following politically motivated statements that complain about low nomina
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19 October 2015
Greece budget update - October
The Finance Ministry of Greece has published the preliminary budget execution bulletin for September, covering the first 9 months of the year. It reve
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19 October 2015
How will refugees affect European economies?
What’s at stake: The continuing wave of refugees arriving at the borders of the European Union has sparked discussions all around Europe on how to dea
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14 October 2015
Foreign loan hangovers and macro-prudential measures in Central Eastern Europe
The Swiss’ national banks’ decision to end the peg to the Euro in January 2015 put again spotlights on the foreign currency loan overhang in CEE. This
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12 October 2015
Margrethe Vestager's speech at Bruegel's event "European competition policy and the energy transition"
This even took place on 12th October 2015 and featured a discussion about the role of European competition policy in the energy market, and especially
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12 October 2015
The disconnect between exchange rates and trade
What’s at stake: The failure of Abenomics to boost net exports despite the large currency depreciation has raised the question of a possible more gene
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08 October 2015
No coordination without representation
Further democratic legitimacy is a pre-requisite to economic union. This article explores how economic policies in the euro area should be coordinated
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08 October 2015
What options for European deposit insurance?
The aim of this blog post is to clarify different options of how to organize European deposit insurance without yet settling on the best option. We a
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07 October 2015
China’s interest in the Juncker Plan: not so strange after all
China has recently started to express interest in the Juncker plan. There have been rumours that China would like to initially invest between €5 and €
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06 October 2015
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Should the key losers - China and Europe - join forces?
After five years of struggle, a massive trade pact has been signed among the US, Japan and 10 other economies (mostly in Asia but also Latin America):
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05 October 2015
Iran: a new natural gas supplier for Europe?
The Iranian nuclear deal reached in July can potentially reshape the Iranian economy in general and its energy sector in particular. On the basis of t
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05 October 2015
The political economy of rate hike-ism
What’s at stake: The banking industry response to the Fed’s decision not to hike rates has led bloggers pondered about why bankers are pushing for hig
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30 September 2015
Europe’s Capital Markets Union and the new single market challenge
Nicolas Véron comments on the Capital Markets Union Action Plan launched by the European Commission on 30 September 2015.
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30 September 2015
Speech by Pierre Moscovici at Bruegel 10th anniversary event in Berlin
Keynote speech at Bruegel event on "Promoting growth and stability in the EU", held at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, on 28 Sep
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26 September 2015
The impact of Volkswagen on the automobile stock market
On Friday 18th September 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that according to their analysis, Volkswagen engine software ha
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23 September 2015
Gazprom: seeking a rapprochement with the EU?
On Monday 21 September Gazprom sent proposals to the European Commission to settle the claims of the antitrust case launched in April. If read in para
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