Opinion piece
24 July 2020
Can households in the European Union make ends meet?
Half the households surveyed by Eurostat see themselves as unable to find the resources they would need to cope with an unexpected expense within a mo
Opinion piece
24 July 2020
Half the households surveyed by Eurostat see themselves as unable to find the resources they would need to cope with an unexpected expense within a mo
Blog post
29 June 2020
Artificial intelligence and machine learning will significantly transform low-skilled jobs that have not yet been negatively affected by past technolo
Blog post
07 May 2020
Nearly 100 million people in 21 EU countries do not have enough savings in their bank accounts to meet two months of basic expenses: food, utilities,
Blog post
08 April 2020
Self-employed workers are hardest-hit by COVID-19 lockdowns. Yet they often receive less government support than salaried employees. Is the disparity
Blog post
31 March 2020
COVID-19 is laying bare socio-economic inequalities and could exacerbate them in the near future. The virus is a risk factor particularly for those at
Opinion piece
04 March 2020
The stimulus is regressive in nature, as the bulk of expenditure is a one-off cash disbursement per adult
Blog post
19 February 2020
Housing prices have been rising fast in the West of the Netherlands in the last five years. However, mortgages outstanding have remained flat, raising
Blog post
18 February 2020
The EU cannot meet its ‘poverty’ targets, because the main indicator used to measure poverty actually measures income inequality. The use of the wrong
Event
05 February 2020
At this event, the panelists will discuss the implications of Artificial Intelligence on the labour market and the future of work in general.
Opinion piece
13 December 2019
The European Green Deal has an ambitious double target to “reconcile the economy with the planet” and to become Europe’s “new growth strategy”.
External publication
28 November 2019
The decline in manufacturing employment is often seen as a major reason for rising inequality, social tensions, and the slump of entire communities.
Blog post
14 October 2019
Our calculations reveal that places where EU regional development projects bind together participants from different countries experience higher econo
Opinion piece
13 September 2019
Eastern Germans vote, think, and feel differently than western Germans do, as the results of the September 1 regional elections make clear. To help ta
Opinion piece
02 July 2019
In the last 50 years, the most important economic development has been the diminishing income gap between the richer and poorer countries. Now, there
Podcast
20 June 2019
Bruegel senior fellow Zsolt Darvas talks to Sean Gibson in this Deep Focus podcast about how the EU can improve its cohesion policy, citing the best e
Policy brief
13 June 2019
Memo to the presidents of the European Commission, Council and Parliament. 'A strategic agenda for the new EU leadership' by Maria Demertzis, André Sa