Blog post
05 February 2019
Francesco Papadia and Inês Gonçalves Raposo have recently written on Italian fiscal policy and the increase in the spread between Italian (BTP) and Ge
Opinion piece
05 December 2018
Global growth is expected to continue in 2019 and 2020, albeit at a slower pace. Forecasters are notoriously bad, however, at spotting macroeconomic t
Opinion piece
23 November 2018
The authors discuss Italy's potential recourse to disaster relief from the European Union Solidarity Fund in the wake of recent floods, focusing speci
Blog post
19 November 2018
Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini is "convinced" that Italians can help out their government, in the face of a widening yield spread betwee
Blog post
15 November 2018
The results of the latest European Banking Authority stress tests were eagerly awaited for their results on the four biggest Italian banks. At first s
Blog post
06 November 2018
Bruegel’s updated data set of sovereign bond holdings illustrates how a rising share of Italian debt is held by domestic investors – a development wi
Podcast
09 October 2018
In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, Guntram Wolff welcomes Bruegel research fellow Grégory Claeys to assess how the new Italian budget
Blog post
08 October 2018
The Italian government has announced an increase of its deficit for 2019, breaking the commitment from the previous government to decrease it to 0.8%
Podcast
28 September 2018
Guntram Wolff welcomes Bruegel affiliate fellow Silvia Merler to evaluate the Italian government’s planned budget for 2019, in this Director’s Cut of
Blog post
10 September 2018
The increase in the spread between Italian (BTP) and German (Bund) government securities is directly an additional burden for Italy public finance, an
Policy brief
06 September 2018
This Policy Contribution looks at the evolution of public debt in Belgium and Italy since 1990 and uses the debt dynamics equation to explain the cont
Opinion piece
04 September 2018
Is the time for refining recommendations and for a serious political debate on how best to overcome bottlenecks and improve the economic prospects of
Blog post
31 August 2018
International investors have been repositioning vis-à-vis Italy, after the new government took office in early May. We compare this summer turmoil to
Blog post
21 August 2018
In the Italian macroeconomic context, many are convinced that if only we had a large enough fiscal lever, we could set in motion an economy that has s
Blog post
23 July 2018
The new Italian government pushed through its first legislative act including elements of labour market reform. Presented as an overturn of the previo
Event
11 July 2018
This is an invitation-only workshop to discuss Italy’s economic and political challenges and what lies ahead