Eu governance

Updated assessment: Memo to the commissioner responsible for trade

Updated assessment: Memo to the commissioner responsible for digital affairs

Not yet Trump-proof: an evaluation of the European Commission’s emerging policy platform

This policy brief evaluates the capacity of the EU’s economic strategy to address structural problems and whether policy needs to change under Trump

Prepare now: Europe must get ready for the coming long-term care surge

In many countries, demand for long-term care services outpaces supply, leading to a ‘care gap’

20 years of improving economic policy: story of Bruegel, story of Europe

Bruegel’s founders recount the think tank’s creation and its journey to becoming a key player in Europe’s economic policy landscape

Are bad governments a threat to sovereign defaults? The effects of political risk on debt sustainability

In this paper, we ask whether the level of political risk in a country threatens its debt sustainability

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

European public goods: the time for action is now

New priorities, including defence and energy security, justify a European public goods approach – for which spare financial capacity can be used

Europe’s economic challenges discussed at the European Forum Alpbach

At the 2024 forum (17-30 August 2024), Bruegel participated as a Track Reporting Partner covering the finance and economy track

The European Union’s Geopolitical Ambitions: Enlargement, Neighbourhood and Necessary Institutional Changes

Joint defence as a European public good

Designing conditionality in the supply of European public goods

This paper studies the consequences of placing conditions on access to sources of central financing

European Union public procurement reform: a difficult but essential balancing act

Upcoming reform of EU public procurement rules will need to reconcile various trade-offs – and should be prioritised to get the benefits sooner

Extra time for deforestation: lessons for future EU environmental legislation

This Policy Brief sets out why the deforestation regulation has the right objectives but needed better design and preparation for implementation

From division to unity: 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall

What was daily life like in Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall? And how did reunification change everything?

A special historical analysis: Europe’s 35-year journey since the fall of the Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989, triggering huge political and economic change; the question now is whether the gains can be safeguarded