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Opinion piece
10 March 2020
Uncoordinated policies behind market collapse
Underlying issues, and not just the coronavirus panic, fed the recent meltdown
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
04 March 2020
Downsides to Hong Kong’s untargeted cash handout
The stimulus is regressive in nature, as the bulk of expenditure is a one-off cash disbursement per adult
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
28 February 2020
Companies must move supply chains further from China
Virus shows Southeast Asian factories too dependent on imported production inputs
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
27 February 2020
Can the EU overcome its enlargement impasse?
The ‘new enlargement methodology’ may help overcome the impasse triggered by the inability of the European Council to open accession negotiations with
Marek Dabrowski
Opinion piece
26 February 2020
A Radical Way Out of the EU Budget Maze
It can be tempting to treat European budgetary discussions as a fairly inconsequential distributional game. But with the EU's role increasingly focuse
Jean Pisani-Ferry
Opinion piece
25 February 2020
Eastern Mediterranean Gas: What Prospects for the New Decade?
The last decade has seen the eastern Mediterranean region become a hotspot of the global natural gas industry, attracting increasing attention from mu
Simone Tagliapietra
Opinion piece
20 February 2020
Why the US Trade Agreement will slow China’s economy
The response of the global financial markets to the trade agreement reached between the United States and China has been very positive, probably exces
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
19 February 2020
Europe may be the world’s AI referee, but referees don’t win
The EU needs to invest in homegrown technology.
Guntram B. Wolff
Opinion piece
17 February 2020
Epidemic tests China’s supply chain dominance
Much has been written on the Wuhan coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease Covid-19, but very little is known yet about its impact on the glob
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
14 February 2020
Europe Needs a DARPA
Germany needs an industrial revival of the sort it experienced in the late nineteenth century, but this will be possible only if the state offers tech
Dalia Marin
Opinion piece
06 February 2020
China’s Coronavirus will not lead to recession but to stimulus and even more debt
The coronavirus outbreak will not lead to recession but the costs of ensuring growth targets will be high
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
04 February 2020
Europe’s Green Deal must reach beyond its borders
A European Climate and Sustainable Development Bank could become the external investment arm of the European Green Deal.
Georg Zachmann and Simone Tagliapietra
Opinion piece
03 February 2020
Berlin will make or break the European Green Deal
€1 trillion isn't enough for the European Green Deal and the EU's fiscal framework is constraining public investment. "Mrs Merkel, tear down this rule
Grégory Claeys and Simone Tagliapietra
Opinion piece
03 February 2020
India navigates a new global order
India’s economic diplomacy must seek to strengthen a reformed and inclusive multilateralism.
Suman Bery
Opinion piece
31 January 2020
The US-China trade agreement will not put an end to geopolitical risks
The agreement between the US and China should not be read so positively in Europe, especially in Germany
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
31 January 2020
Realpolitik of the day after Brexit
Compromises hammered out in the next 11 months, by both British and European negotiators, will dictate the UK’s economic landscape for decades to come
Maria Demertzis