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A conversation on Ireland’s economic recovery, housing crisis, and international role

Russian foreign trade tracker
Tracking Russian trade using data from the EU, China, the US, South Korea, Japan, India, the UK, Turkey, Switzerland, Norway, Brazil and Kazakhstan

Ukraine: European democracy’s affordable arsenal
A future enlarged EU, including Ukraine, should take full advantage of the lower-cost military production capabilities of Ukraine

Can Germany afford to take most defence spending out of its debt brake?
Higher German defence spending would be fiscally sustainable, but would require cuts elsewhere and would breach EU fiscal rules

China’s ‘two sessions’ points to determination to rebuff Trump
China's leadership plans to increase the deficit, lower inflation rates and increase manufacturing capacity whilst supporting critical technologies

European natural gas imports
This dataset aggregates daily data on European natural gas import flows and storage levels.
Bruegel's 20th anniversary
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Gender diversity and economic growth
The gains from gender inclusiveness are likely to be much larger than standard economic models estimate

How to improve the European Union’s sustainable finance framework
Five adjustments would make the EU sustainable finance framework more effective at delivering the desired alignment of incentives

Draghi on a shoestring: the European Commission’s Competitiveness Compass
The proposed EU Competitiveness Compass would set up a conflict between industrial policy and the single market

'Reciprocal' tariffs: what's in a word?
Trump's definition does not reflect reciprocity as applied in past multilateral trade negotiations or in equality of tariffs

Will China’s economy follow the same path as Japan’s?
Since the 2021 bursting of its real-estate bubble, worries have grown that China's future economic trajectory will mirror that of Japan in the 1990s
Is China headed for its own ‘lost decade’?

China
Bruegel regularly publishes research on China's relationship with the EU and the wider world
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