Macroeconomic policy and governance

Managing the What Ifs: Europe, China and world trade

How should the EU de-risk its external economic relationships without foregoing the benefits of trade?

Unpacking China’s industrial policy and its implications for Europe

This paper assess how beneficial industrial policy has been for China and how exportable to the European Union its model might be

German pension reform push crystallises challenges faced by many European countries

The burden of pension reform should be shared across generations, even if it is politically difficult

NATO and the EU - who does what for European defence?

As the war in Ukraine stretches on, how do the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation work together?

How to de-risk: European economic security in a world of interdependence

The question is how exactly the EU should ‘de-risk’ its external economic relationships without foregoing the benefits of trade.

Paris report 2: Europe's economic security

The push-pull between geopolitics and domestic resistance: lessons from the 2004 enlargement of the EU

Geopolitics is now a chief concern of political leaders in both the EU and candidate countries, giving them strong reasons to integrate more closely

What about the EU’s cohesion?

What visions for Europe? Unpacking EU parties’ economic strategies

The EU elections are around the corner. What economic plans are the parties advocating for?

The impact on the European Union of Ukraine’s potential future accession

This report evaluates the impact on the EU of a possible EU accession of Ukraine, focusing on economic consequences and institutional developments.

1982: the debt crisis that could have destroyed Western banking

What we can learn from four decades of financial turmoil and recovery