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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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15 June 2015
Günther H. Oettinger's speech at Bruegel's event "What Digital Union for Europe?"
Günther H. Oettinger's speech at Bruegel's anniversary event "What Digital Union for Europe?", which took place in Warsaw on 15 June 2015.
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15 June 2015
The empirical shift in economics
Rather than being unified by the application of the common behavioral model of the rational agent, economists increasingly recognize themselves in the
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10 June 2015
Reinvigorating EU-Algeria energy cooperation
In this blogpost, Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann argue that, while natural gas currently represents the most important area of energy coo
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10 June 2015
Waiting for the Four Presidents' Report
The Four Presidents’ Report on the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is expected to be released at the end of June, outlining how to strengthen econom
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08 June 2015
The economics of parallel currencies
As Greece faces a severe shortage of euros, the idea of introducing a parallel currency used for some domestic transactions – while keeping the euro i
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08 June 2015
Mathiness in economics
What’s at stake: Growth economist Paul Romer has caused a stir over the past few weeks in the blogosphere with a paper, first presented in January at
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04 June 2015
Greece: where we stand and what to watch
It has been an intense couple of days on the front of Greek negotiations, with leaks from both sides. Beyond the noise, here are some key points to wa
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27 May 2015
Corruptionomics in Italy
Tackling corruption is not only a matter of fairness, but it is also crucial to boost Italy’s potential output after three years of recession and almo
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27 May 2015
How to unleash the financing of high growth firms in Europe
In this blog post, Karen Wilson shares 10 recommended actions points to the European Commission to unleash and attract venture capital and other forms
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26 May 2015
European leaders want the UK to stay, but are best friends forever?
The Conservative Party’s election victory leaves little doubt as to the holding of a referendum on continued British EU membership in 2016 or 2017. Wh
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26 May 2015
The residual seasonality puzzle
While seasonal adjustment is generally considered uninteresting, the repetition of low first quarter GDP releases since 2010 has led many to wonder if
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22 May 2015
“Dura Lex, sed Lex”(?)
On the 30th of April, the Italian Constitutional Court issued a decision on the pension reform introduced by the Monti government in 2011. The decisio
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20 May 2015
Mind the gap (and its revision)!
In this post Zsolt Darvas presents an analysis of the revisions made to output gap estimates between 2001 and 2015 by the European Commission and the
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19 May 2015
Are European yollies more hampered by financial barriers than their US counterparts?
The persistent deficiency in private R&D spending in Europe compared to the United States can be almost entirely accounted for by the EU having fe
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19 May 2015
Europe’s integration overdrive
May 10 is the fifth anniversary of the bailout of Greece. Set almost exactly 60 years apart from the Schuman Declaration, the events triggered by the
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18 May 2015
China pushing 'build now, pay later' model to emerging world
China will be the largest contributor to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which aims to become the first global institution headquartered in
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