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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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01 July 2015
Juncker plan: the EIB in the driver’s seat
After weeks of negotiations with the European Commission and the Council of the EU, the European Parliament on 24 June adopted the text.
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01 July 2015
Bond markets remaining calm
Following on from our blog on Monday, we take another look at the intra-day developments in the sovereign bond markets. So far, there appear to be no
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29 June 2015
Greece: from default to Grexit?
The government of Greece has rejected the creditors’ conditions of the continuing bailout program and is heading to imminent default on its obligation
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29 June 2015
Economic and legal observations on capital controls
While the exact decision of the Greek government is not yet to my knowledge clearly communicated, it appears that besides a bank holiday, the governme
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28 June 2015
(Lack of a) reaction in euro area yields
With the current situation in the ongoing Greek debt negotiations taking a turn for the worse this weekend, we take a look at other Euro area interest
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28 June 2015
China’s outward foreign direct investment
China’s outbound foreign direct investment (ODI) may have exceeded inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) for the first time in 2014, according to th
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28 June 2015
A democratic Europe should allow Greek people to decide on their future
Mr Tsipras’s call for the 5 July referendum about the Eurogroup proposal is an ideal outcome for official creditors. Zsolt Darvas argues that at
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25 June 2015
Euro area governance: an assessment of the “five presidents” report
European Commission President Juncker has published the long-awaited report prepared in collaboration with the presidents of the European Council, the
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24 June 2015
Will a UK welfare reform ease the UK's EU negotiation?
In a speech on 22 June 2015, UK David Cameron pointed at a number of possible changes that could be made to the UK's tax credit system. Why is th
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23 June 2015
Die Europäische Energieunion: Schlagwort oder wichtiger Integrationsschritt?
Die Schaffung einer europäischen Energieunion ist ein zentrales Projekt der Juncker-Kommission. Die umfassende Definition der Energieunion – welche vo
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22 June 2015
The 4% growth target
What's at stake: To contrast with President Obama’s middle class economics, the Republican Party – from Rand Paul’s proposal to repeal the entire
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19 June 2015
The Russian pipeline waltz
This is an eventful period for EU-Russia gas relations. Six months ago Russian President Vladimir Putin surprised the energy world by dismissing the l
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19 June 2015
Greece budget update
As Eurogroup discussions with Greece continue, the latest budget execution bulletin from the Greek finance ministry has been published yesterday, comp
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18 June 2015
The slow-reform trap
Ukraine is perhaps the most convincing example of a victim of slow reform. Since independence in 1991, it has missed several political windows of oppo
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17 June 2015
Greece – the three essential elements for a deal
This blog argues that a deal for Greece requires three elements: lower primary surpluses than the creditors are currently asking for; little action on
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15 June 2015
Is Greece destined to grow?
There is much talk about the impasse between Greece and its official lenders in their bail-out negotiations, so I thought I would write about somethin
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