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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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30 September 2013
Follow-up: The German minimum wage debate
Since our last blog post on the German minimum wage debate, there is now renewed interest in the topic. What are the prospects of&
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30 September 2013
Insufficient home-assignments from the European Semester
Does the European Semester deliver the right policy advice to the euro area? Unfortunately, we find the recommendations disappointing, for a
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24 September 2013
Blogs review: Battle of narratives over the European recovery
What's at stake: Many European leaders have started to claim credit for the recent improvement in economic conditions in the Eurozone. The boldes
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20 September 2013
Zsolt Darvas promoted to Senior Fellow
Bruegel's Board confirmed the appointment of Zsolt Darvas to Senior Fellow at Bruegel at its meeting on September 9th.
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20 September 2013
Bruegel strengthens team of non-resident fellows
Mark Hallerberg, Ashoka Mody, Rainer Münz and Jim O'Neill were appointed Bruegel non-resident fellows at the think-tank's Board meeting on September 9
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18 September 2013
-15% to +4%: Taylor-rule interest rates for euro area countries
Does one size fit all? Before the crisis, there was a major debate on whether the single interest rate set by the European Central Bank (ECB) would be
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11 September 2013
Blogs review: India in trouble?
What's at stake: The emerging economies are currently being watched with increased anxiety in the context of the possible harmful effects of mone
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11 September 2013
Borderless electricity: completing the internal energy market
To reap the significant benefits from an integrated European electricity market, we propose the following blueprint: First, we suggest adding a E
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05 September 2013
The future of world trade negotiations
Much will depend on the credible threat of ‘economically meaningful discriminatory outcome’ that the new mega-regionals can actually create.
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23 August 2013
Good news from Cyprus: Q2 contraction only 1.4 percent
There was a great news in the Eurostat release of the GDP flash estimate for the second quarter of 2013, which was not much highlighted: the
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22 August 2013
Bruegel releases enhanced RSS feeds
Bruegel has improved its RSS feeds to include full texts, graphs and links to download publications. If you are subscribed to the old R
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21 August 2013
Yields on the rise
US government bond yields have increased recently, mainly due to the talks about tapering the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing (QE) programme. Th
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20 August 2013
Euro area adjustment in a low inflation environment
Inflation in the euro area remains low. Eurostat’s most recent figures show that inflation in the monetary union remained unchanged at 1.6 %
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20 August 2013
Blogs review: The intellectual legacy of Milton Friedman
What started as a series of post by David Glasner on the legacy of Milton Friedman turned into a major dispute after Paul Krugman
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13 August 2013
Greek exposure to Cyprus: the unintended consequences of restructuring
Europe failed to properly address the consequences of the Greek debt restructuring. The crisis came back with a vengeance when the Cypriot crisis even
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13 August 2013
Recent real effective exchange rate movements (summer 2013 database update)
We have updated the monthly database up to July 2013, which is downloadable form the website of the working paper.
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