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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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18 June 2013
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Initiative: Hope or Hype?
The decision to launch negotiations on a bilateral free trade area between the EU and the US, called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnershi
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18 June 2013
Guntram Wolff appointed Director of Bruegel
Bruegel’s members yesterday confirmed the decision of its Board of 13 May 2013 to appoint Guntram Wolff as Director. Dr. Wolff replaces Jean Pisani-Fe
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14 June 2013
Blogs review: Tackling youth unemployment
What’s at stake: The latest unemployment figures for the 15 to 24 years old age group have made big waves in the media and made European policyma
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13 June 2013
Overview of the Karlsruhe Hearing on OMT – Summary
It is noteworthy that the Court asked several times throughout the hearing about the possibility to change the ECB’s mandate – not least because the c
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13 June 2013
Overview of the Karlsruhe Hearing on OMT – Day 1
The German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) has begun to hear the case against the ECB’s OMT program. The two day-long hearing is unusually long and
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13 June 2013
Latvia in the Eurozone: A Bet with No Upside
The euro does not help Latvia, but could hurt it. The Eurozone is not helped by Latvia, but Latvian entry could create new problems. The best scenario
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12 June 2013
Southern Europe no longer indebting to the rest of the world
This post is an update on the current account developments in Southern Europe and the composition of corresponding financial flows.
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12 June 2013
Stellungnahme zur öffentlichen Anhörung im Bundestag Finanzausschuß: Verordnungsentwurf gemeinsame europäische Bankenaufsicht
Written contribution to the public hearing of the Bundestag financial committee on June 3 2013 on the Single European Supervisor.
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11 June 2013
Antitrust damages: the European Commission’s proposal
The European Commission has just adopted its proposed directive that would harmonise within the EU rules related to antitrust damages. The i
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11 June 2013
Troika conflict shows need for substantial reform
The recent controversy between the IMF and the European Commission on the question of when a debt restructuring should have been done raises the broad
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10 June 2013
Where does the youth exodus come from?
Intra-EU migration increased before the crisis, especially into booming countries like Ireland and Spain. What happened during the crisis?
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06 June 2013
Europa droht eine verlorene Dekade
Bruegel-Forscher Zsolt Darvas über die schädlichen Folgen aktueller Konjunkturprobleme für das langfristige Wachstum.
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06 June 2013
Wetten Sie nicht gegen das ETSETT
Fragen und Antworten von Bruegel-Forscher Georg Zachmann zur Krise des Europäischen Emissionshandelssystems.
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06 June 2013
Waging war on cartels
On May 14, European Commission officials seeking proof of oil price fixing raided three major oil groups. Just a few weeks before, surprise
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06 June 2013
Blogs review: The economics of a regime shift
What’s at stake:For several years already (see our previous reviews on price level and nominal GDP targeting), monetary economists and historians have
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06 June 2013
Is the OECD’s promise of better times ahead a credible one?
This week the OECD released its latest biannual Economic Outlook. The world GDP growth forecast for 2013 has been revised down from 3.4 percent in Jun
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