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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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12 November 2013
Mergers and acquisitions of Banks in the Euro Area: where are the borders?
The creation of a monetary union has allowed wholesale banking in Europe to become increasingly integrated, until the financial crisis reversed the tr
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07 November 2013
The German trade surplus may widen with the euro-area recovery
An increased demand for German exports may well lead to an increased overall German trade surplus, unless German domestic demand increases significant
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07 November 2013
Fines levied on banks in the Euribor antitrust case do not lessen the need for new regulation
Ex-post enforcement is good, but it is not enough. The best way to fight collusion is prevention, not punishment.
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07 November 2013
Bruegel's Karen Wilson appointed to Senior Fellow
A year after joining Bruegel as a Visiting Scholar, Karen Wilson was appointed Senior Fellow on the 1st of November 2013. Wilson's work at Bruegel foc
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06 November 2013
Blogs review: the comparative performance of fixed and flexible ER regimes
What’s at stake: Andrew Rose recently published a provoking paper, which shows that the choice of the exchange rate regime has had little influence on
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06 November 2013
Blogs review: The deflationary bias of Germany’s current account
What’s at stake: For the first time the U.S. Treasury semi-annual report to “Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Polic
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02 November 2013
China’s catching up on competition policy enforcement
Foreign business is increasingly realising that China has antitrust laws, and is not too shy to use them. The Glencore/Xstrata merger in the spring wa
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28 October 2013
Europas Finanzsystem neu gestalten
Bruegel-Forscher André Sapir und Guntram B. Wolff über die Reform des Bankensektors
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28 October 2013
„Die EU setzt nicht die richtigen Ziele“
Interview mit Bruegel-Forscherin Reinhilde Veugelers über die Renaissance der Industriepolitik.
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28 October 2013
Die Energiewende braucht einen europäischen Strommarkt
Bruegel-Forscher Georg Zachmann über das Paradox sinkender Stromerzeugungskosten.
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24 October 2013
An encouraging start for the ECB’s Big Bank Review
Europe’s leaders will need to be clear-sighted about the consequences of their choices in the weeks and months ahead.
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23 October 2013
The liquidity quandary
The risk connected to the normalisation of the liquidity condition in the Eurozone exists. It should therefore be acknowledged and its impact assessed
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23 October 2013
Blogs review: The structural balance controversy
What’s at stake: The European Commission has been reconsidering the operational details of its production function method to estimate potential o
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19 October 2013
Blogs review: The US hitting the debt ceiling
What’s at stake: Despite indications of a possible deal between President Obama and the Republicans in the US Congress, there is still a risk that the
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19 October 2013
Banking Nationalism and the European Crisis
Oral remarks prepared for a speech on the changing European financial system, given in Istanbul on 27 June 2013 at a symposium of the European Private
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19 October 2013
Europe should ask the US to shutdown political uncertainty
China urged the US political system to end its political impasse quickly – on which Europe should insist. End this highly dangerous game, be
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