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What should the European Union aim for in a trade deal with Trump?
The EU should plan for both the short term and the long haul in trade talks with the United States
How will population ageing affect the EU?
The European Union should not water down bank capital standards
The EU should resist the pressure for banking-sector deregulation that is likely to follow from the deregulatory push in the United States
‘Project Einstein’: research excellence for Europe and the world
The European Union has the money to attract researchers under threat in the US and should coordinate a scheme to deploy it
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First Glance
30 January 2025
Updated assessment: Memos to the commissioners responsible for energy and climate
Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann
First Glance
30 January 2025
Updated assessment: Memo to the commissioner responsible for trade
Ignacio García Bercero, Petros C. Mavroidis and André Sapir
First Glance
30 January 2025
Updated assessment: Memo to the commissioner responsible for digital affairs
Bertin Martens
First Glance
30 January 2025
The EU and the UK are doomed to cooperate
There are compelling reasons for the European Union and United Kingdom to put the adversarial period of Brexit behind them
Ignacio García Bercero and Hans Geeroms
First Glance
29 January 2025
EU-Switzerland: a new approach to partial integration into the single market?
The new EU-Swiss agreement breaks new ground, and could offer lessons for the EU-UK relationship
Ignacio García Bercero
Newsletter
27 January 2025
Leaders and institutions: honouring Jean Pisani-Ferry and celebrating the birth of Bruegel
Jeromin Zettelmeyer
First Glance
23 January 2025
The case for a European Defence Compact
The EU needs a European Defence Compact uniting a coalition of likeminded countries to swiftly deliver and finance joint defence capabilities
Roel Beetsma, Marco Buti and Francesco Nicoli
Newsletter
20 January 2025
How can the EU harness data as an economic production factor?
Bertin Martens
First Glance
16 January 2025
Political contagion in Europe: can the European Union survive Trumpism?
Trumpism could fatally undermine European integration if governments do not stand firm and defend the EU’s law-based system
Heather Grabbe and Jean Pisani-Ferry
Opinion piece
08 January 2025
The EU’s Quest to Run Faster
Rebecca Christie
Opinion piece
06 January 2025
Can American abandonment help Europe?
The continent has a chance to address its own weaknesses
Arancha González Laya, Camille Grand, Nathalie Tocci, Katarzyne Pisarska and Guntram B. Wolff
Newsletter
20 December 2024
Is Europe ready for the challenges of 2025 and beyond?
Jeromin Zettelmeyer
Opinion piece
17 December 2024
China would balk at a sweeping Mar-a-Lago accord
Given the need for a weak renminbi to support export growth, a reprise of the 1985 Plaza Accord with Japan is unlikely
Alicia García-Herrero
Newsletter
16 December 2024
How should the EU respond to Trump's tariffs?
André Sapir
Newsletter
16 December 2024
David and Goliath: The EU’s Global Gateway versus China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Alicia García-Herrero
Opinion piece
12 December 2024
Global economy bracing for Trumpworld
Alicia García-Herrero