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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.
Blog post
04 March 2020
The European Green Deal must cut hidden fossil fuel subsidies
Brussels should ensure that fossil fuels do not get direct or indirect support from governments
Blog post
03 March 2020
What can the EU learn from the China-Switzerland free trade agreement?
The US-China trade war has placed EU trade relations with China under the microscope. Should the EU challenge China’s trade practices and employ trade
Blog post
03 March 2020
To save the Italian economy from the Coronavirus, Rome prescribes a stimulus
Faced with a difficult prognosis, the Italian government has prescribed a three-step strategy to treat the worse economic symptoms of the Coronavirus.
Blog post
02 March 2020
Europeans take the Euro for granted
We compared an analysis of the media with the preliminary findings of a qualitative research project. The results confirm national differences, but hi
Blog post
27 February 2020
As the Coronavirus spreads, can the EU afford to close its borders?
In 2018, 320 million trips were made between EU countries and almost 2 million people crossed Schengen borders to go to work. Stopping them would cau
Blog post
20 February 2020
Inflation targets: revising the European Central Bank’s monetary framework
The ECB is looking to evaluate whether its definition of price stability is effective in helping anchor inflation expectations. We argue that the curr
Blog post
19 February 2020
What is fuelling the Dutch house price boom?
Housing prices have been rising fast in the West of the Netherlands in the last five years. However, mortgages outstanding have remained flat, raising
Blog post
18 February 2020
The EU’s poverty reduction efforts should not aim at the wrong target
The EU cannot meet its ‘poverty’ targets, because the main indicator used to measure poverty actually measures income inequality. The use of the wrong
Blog post
17 February 2020
Recent euro-area house price increases are dissimilar to earlier housing booms
Current housing markets relative to those pre-crisis seem to be far less driven by mortgage credit, and the size of the construction sector has not in
Blog post
11 February 2020
The dynamics of data accumulation
The bigger you are, the more data you can harvest. But does data accumulation necessarily breed monopolies in AI and related machine learning markets?
Blog post
04 February 2020
Climate risks to European banks: a new era of stress tests
Several European central banks have begun assessing the impact of adverse climate scenarios on banks’ capital.
Blog post
31 January 2020
Our two cents on Belgium’s two cents
While the penny is still well and alive in the US, some countries are deciding to do away with their smallest monetary units for this very reason. Bel
Blog post
27 January 2020
Libra as a currency board: are the risks too great?
The Libra Association claims it will be analogous to a currency board regime, but they have overlooked the problems of monetary management that come w
Blog post
24 January 2020
A European anti-money laundering supervisor: From vision to legislation
In fighting anti-money laundering, the European Commission should act fast toward creating a central supervisory authority.
Blog post
23 January 2020
Do AI markets create competition policy concerns?
AI markets are young and their structure is yet to crystallise. Is European competition law ready for what happens next?
Blog post
23 January 2020
How could net balances change in the next EU budget?
The gap between payments into the EU budget and EU spending in a particular country has importance when EU spending does not constitute European publi
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