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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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22 September 2015
Greece budget update - September
Last week, while Europe was anticipating the Greek election, the Greek finance ministry published the latest budget execution bulletin, covering Janua
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21 September 2015
Reserves depletion and quantitative tightening
What’s at stake: Rather than being led by the Federal Reserve, global monetary tightening might be coming from the reserve depletion of emerging marke
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17 September 2015
The EU 2030 Climate and Energy Framework: Keeping up the pressure on governance structures
The Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council on 26 November should indicate a clear way forward.
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17 September 2015
The European Energy Union: Slogan or an important step towards integration?
The broad definition of an Energy Union may enable the European Commission to facilitate a radical compromise between the member states. Because Germa
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16 September 2015
EU immigration to the US: where is it coming from, and is brain drain real?
In today’s world of ever-increasing mobility, who is leaving Europe? In this piece, we examine the immigrants leaving the EU for the US. How many and
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16 September 2015
Euro crisis
This timeline underpins some of the main events that determined the origins and developments of the euro crisis and highlights our contributions to th
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14 September 2015
The then and now of tightening cycles
What’s at stake: This week the Fed will be considering whether to raise its interest rate for the first time in nearly a decade. In a volatile context
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10 September 2015
Europe’s true immigration capacity: what we can learn from the US green card system
As masses of immigrants arrive at our doorstep each day, only to be denied entry, we cannot help but ask ourselves if the EU is doing enough. How many
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09 September 2015
Celebrating Bruegel's anniversary
Jean-Claude Trichet outlines the factors behind Bruegel's success over the years.
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09 September 2015
Bruegel: an unlikely start-up
Bruegel was born out of an unusual openness to new ideas and an extraordinary coincidence of minds in the French and German Treasuries. The story of i
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09 September 2015
Putting Bruegel on the map
Mario Monti shares his insight on the making of Bruegel.
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09 September 2015
10 years of Bruegel
Guntram Wolff reflects on the time when he joined Bruegel and its next 10 years.
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09 September 2015
Bruegel’s multiple births
Nicolas Véron takes us back to the very early days of Bruegel in 2005.
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09 September 2015
Bruegel: a successful transition
Leszek Balcerowicz looks back at the time when he was a Chairman of Bruegel.
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08 September 2015
Timeline: Bruegel over the years
Bruegel is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2015. This timeline provides an overview of key events in Europe over the last 10 years as well as majo
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07 September 2015
Speech by President Donald Tusk at the Bruegel Annual Dinner
Speech held at Bruegel Annual Dinner, Brussels 7 September 2015
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