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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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04 February 2013
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04 February 2013
Tim Geithner and Europe’s phone number
According to a famous (yet apocryphal) joke by Henry Kissinger, there is no telephone number to call to speak to Europe. Indeed the fragmentation of E
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04 February 2013
Blogs review: Can we all be more like Scandinavians?
What’s at stake: An interesting debate about the trade-off between innovation and redistribution has sparked over the (admittedly wonky) paper by Daro
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04 February 2013
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04 February 2013
No ringfencing makes sense, but don't take off the gloves - implementing the recommendations in the Liikanen report
Michel Barnier, European commissioner in charge of regulatory reform, has indicated implementation of the recommendations in the L
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04 February 2013
The world innovation landscape: Asia rising?
Global growth in research and development has been vigorous, with both public and private R&D investment increasing and growing more rapidly outsi
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04 February 2013
The Euro Area: Great Recession or Great Depression?
The Great Depression was a period of severe economic contraction that lasted many years. In the United States real GDP fell every year from 1929 to 19
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01 February 2013
Blogs review: Inequality and the recovery
What’s at stake: Inequality is again a hot topic in the blogosphere. While the early focus of that debate was about the role of inequality in fos
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31 January 2013
(Slowly) back to normal in the Eurozone?
Private capital is returning to the distressed Eurozone countries and sovereign bonds. 2012 might be remembered as the year in which two “ends of the
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31 January 2013
Charts of the week: funding costs keep coming down in the wave of euro optimism
Funding costs in the euro area have continued to decrease since Mario Draghi’s July announcement. This blog post updates our previous data covering th
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31 January 2013
Wie alles anfing
„Ich habe mich nicht für jede französische, deutsche, oder deutsch-französische Initiative begeistert, aber diese hier war die Unterstützung wert“. Mi
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31 January 2013
Kein schmerzfreier Ausweg
Das fiskalische Kliff in den USA können wir vergessen. Das eigentliche Problem ist der Schuldenberg - in Amerika, aber auch in Europa. Die Aufgabe, di
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31 January 2013
„Flexibilität geht vor Größe“
Interview mit Bruegel-Forscherin Benedicta Marzinotto über das künftige EU-Rahmenbudget.
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30 January 2013
UPS-TNT: the eternal struggle between harm and efficiencies
After Olympic/Aegean and Deutsche Börse/NYSE, today’s decision on UPS/TNT is Joaquin Almunia’s third merger prohibition since
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28 January 2013
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28 January 2013
Will Europe pay for Japan?
As the Bank of Japan is rolling out its new programme of quantitative easing, a significant debate about the impact on Europe is emerging. Is Japan en
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