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Opinion piece
10 January 2019
Fifty shades of yellow
Who are the Yellow Vests? What are the true roots of their uprising? And what do they want? Six weeks after they started rocking French politics and a
Jean Pisani-Ferry
Opinion piece
09 January 2019
Lose-lose scenario for Europe from ongoing China-US negotiations
Without an expectation of a larger market for European exports in the absence of additional opening up by Chinese authorities, European exporters shou
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
19 December 2018
China’s view of the trade war has changed—and so has its strategy
The truce agreed on by China and the United States at the sidelines of the recent G-20 meeting in Buenos Aires doesn’t really change the picture of th
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
15 December 2018
Can virtual currencies challenge the dominant position of sovereign currencies?
Marek Dabrowski and Lukasz Janikowski analyse why private money has historically failed in competition against sovereign currencies and what it means
Marek Dabrowski and Łukasz Janikowski
Opinion piece
14 December 2018
How a second referendum could be the best way to overcome Brexit impasse
A new vote based on the revocation (or not) of Article 50 would give the UK government a clear signal to proceed in one direction or another, and thus
Maria Demertzis and Nicola Viegi
Opinion piece
12 December 2018
A new statistical system for the European Union
Quality statistics are essential to economic policy. In this essay, Andreas Georgiou demonstrates the existence of fundamental risks inherent in the E
Andreas Georgiou
Opinion piece
12 December 2018
Immigration: The doors of perception
Surveys show that people systematically overestimate the share of foreign-born citizens among resident populations. Aligning people's perceptions with
Inês Goncalves Raposo
Opinion piece
12 December 2018
The UN climate conference in Katowice: A message from the European capital of coal
Following the COP24 climate talks in Poland, Simone Tagliapietra reviews the arguments for and challenges to decarbonisation.
Simone Tagliapietra
Opinion piece
05 December 2018
The great macro divergence
Global growth is expected to continue in 2019 and 2020, albeit at a slower pace. Forecasters are notoriously bad, however, at spotting macroeconomic t
Jean Pisani-Ferry
Opinion piece
04 December 2018
Macroéconomie et gilets jaunes
Les analyses de la fronde des gilets jaunes ont surtout mis l’accent sur la répartition des revenus et des prélèvements entre catégories sociales et s
Jean Pisani-Ferry
Opinion piece
30 November 2018
What the "gilets jaunes" movement tells us about environment and climate policies
Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann write on the climate governance lesson European governments should learn from the "gilets jaunes" experience.
Georg Zachmann and Simone Tagliapietra
Opinion piece
29 November 2018
The world deserves a more effective G20
As the presidency shifts from Argentina to Japan at Buenos Aires (and then to Saudi Arabia) it is worth asking why the G20 has endured this long and w
Suman Bery
Opinion piece
28 November 2018
Buenos Aires summit is a good place to start fighting back against destructive unilateralism
Ten years after the G20 proved its effectiveness in dealing with the global financial crisis, it needs to step up its efforts to overcome a political
Uri Dadush, Axel Berger, Raul Ochoa, Andreas Freytag, Simon Evenett, Christian von Haldenwang, Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Agustin Redonda and Karl Sauvant
Opinion piece
23 November 2018
Italy’s floods: How the European Union Solidarity Fund can help
The authors discuss Italy's potential recourse to disaster relief from the European Union Solidarity Fund in the wake of recent floods, focusing speci
Simone Tagliapietra and Antoine Mathieu Collin
Opinion piece
31 October 2018
Plädoyer gegen eine Politik der Scheinlösungen
Der Daueraufschwung verdeckt, dass Deutschland für die nächste Krise schlecht gerüstet ist. Und das Zeitfenster für Reformen schließt sich.
Jochen Andritzky
Opinion piece
29 October 2018
The global economy’s three games
In this column, Jean Pisani-Ferry portrays the current international economic and geopolitical order as increasingly reminiscent of chess. Three key p
Jean Pisani-Ferry