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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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03 March 2014
The Neutral Net in Europe: Reasons for Optimism
Events leading up to the forthcoming European Parliament plenary vote will be the litmus test of the political capital expended on promoting Europe as
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03 March 2014
Blogs review: The 2008 FOMC transcripts
What’s at stake: Fed watchers have spent the past week dissecting the much-awaited 1865 pages of transcripts covering the 2008 meetings
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03 March 2014
The ECB should be more aggressive on monetary policy
The ECB’s promise to do “whatever it takes” has stabilized the euro but its hesitant stance to fight low inflation or even deflation will undermine st
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27 February 2014
Policy complacency is the greatest threat to euro area growth
On 25 February 2014, the European Commission released its Winter 2014 Forecast document. After a double-dip recession and two consecutive ye
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24 February 2014
Blogs review: Freedom of movement in Europe
What’s at stake: From January 2014, full freedom of movement – the right to move, reside and work freely in any EU country– applies to citizens of Bul
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19 February 2014
Grégory Claeys appointed as new Research Fellow
Grégory Claeys has been appointed Research Fellow at Bruegel and will be part of the team doing research on European macroeconomics.
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18 February 2014
Blogs review: Profits without investment in the recovery
What’s at stake: Paul Krugman has kicked off an interesting debate in the blogosphere about a new disconnect between profits and production, which may
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18 February 2014
European Bank Resolution: don’t try this at home
How would the resolution of a bank work, in practice? Let’s go step by step.
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18 February 2014
Why competition policy matters for growth?
Economic literature suggests that competition can have broad economic effects in three areas: the total amount of economic wealth available in the mar
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17 February 2014
The pros and cons of the EU vs Google settlement
After more than three years, the European Commission and Google are moving towards a settlement of antitrust charges: most importantly, of the allegat
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17 February 2014
Decoded: BRICS
In the near future, the term ‘BRICS’ may become a synonym for countries whose growth rate returned to normal after achieving rapid growth for a certai
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17 February 2014
Blogs review: Understanding the mechanics and economics of Bitcoins
What’s at stake: The value of Bitcoins – the peer-to-peer currency – has been soaring so much of late that you have certainly heard about it. It is al
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17 February 2014
Blogs review: The employment to population ratio
What’s at stake: The drop and lack of recovery in the employment to population (E/P) ratio has raised questions as to whether the drop in the unemploy
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15 February 2014
Blogs review: GDP, welfare and the rise of data-driven activities
What’s at stake: The worry today is not that investment in technology might not be as productive as we thought (the so-called computer paradox),&
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15 February 2014
The implications of Asia’s scientific rise
A previous article in this newsletter (issue 3, December 2012) demonstrated how selected Asian governments have come to view science as integral to ec
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13 February 2014
Blogs review: Getting rid of the Euler equation
What’s at stake: There has been a new round of discussions on the limits of DSGE models over the past two weeks in the econblogosphere. What star
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