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The EU needs a methodology for including reform impacts in fiscal trajectories
Such a methodology, and a governance mechanism for managing associated risks, must be in place before the new fiscal framework kickstarts in September
Why should the European Union reboot the debate on financing the EU budget?
A Connected Europe in the Digital World
The EU's digital policy will serve the bloc better if it stays open and consciously linked to the rest of the world.
The European Central Bank, inflation tolerance and the last mile
European capital markets union: make it or break it
Capital markets union has not delivered, but it should be given a last chance, with a focus on supervisory integration
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Opinion piece
22 June 2023
The US and euro area must move faster on their digital currencies for wholesale purposes
Maria Demertzis and Josh Lipsky
Newsletter
21 June 2023
China's growing and complex economic relationship with the Gulf States
Alicia García-Herrero
Newsletter
19 June 2023
How can de-risking lead to greater economic security?
Maria Demertzis
Newsletter
12 June 2023
How should EU policymakers reboot the NZIA?
Reinhilde Veugelers
Opinion piece
06 June 2023
De-risking as an economic strategy
Maria Demertzis
Opinion piece
10 May 2023
Did the European Union Dodge the Energy Bullet?
Marek Dabrowski
Newsletter
05 June 2023
Russian LNG: what measures will help the EU kick the habit?
Simone Tagliapietra
Opinion piece
01 June 2023
China’s growing power in Latin America
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
01 June 2023
China’s weak recovery is turning off foreign investors
Quick rebound expected after the relaxation of zero-Covid policies has not materialised.
Alicia García-Herrero
Newsletter
29 May 2023
How should the EU deal with its rising borrowing costs?
Grégory Claeys
Opinion piece
25 May 2023
Europe’s critical struggle with its economic paradigm
As the European elections approach, the main policy choices are more existential than perhaps ever before.
Simone Tagliapietra and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
Opinion piece
23 May 2023
Looking backwards not forwards: why has the European Central Bank been slow to react?
Maria Demertzis
Newsletter
22 May 2023
Why is the G7 expected to issue a joint statement condemning 'economic coercion'?
Niclas Poitiers
Opinion piece
16 May 2023
China’s overseas lending needs a full-fledged debt restructuring
Alicia García-Herrero
First glance
19 May 2023
Central banks: uncertainty is the problem, not managing the trilemma
Regaining price stability is difficult but doable; the bigger problem facing central banks is economic uncertainty.
Francesco Papadia
Newsletter
16 May 2023
China and the US might not be decoupling but their technologies are bifurcating
Once the process of building alliances starts, it is hard to stop.
Alicia García-Herrero