Blog post
29 May 2020
An uncompromising budget
Apart from decisive European Central Bank measures, the EU-wide response to the COVID crisis had been rather weak until the Commission put on the tabl
Welfare policy
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Comment
26 May 2020
An equity fund for a zombie-free and EU-wide recovery
Four guiding principles can help ensure a well designed EU equity fund.
Comment
25 May 2020
Reading tea leaves from China’s two sessions: Large monetary and fiscal stimulus and still no growth guarantee
The announcement of a large stimulus without a growth target indicates that China’s recovery is far from complete.
Blog post
20 May 2020
The European Union’s SURE plan to safeguard employment: a small step forward
The new EU instrument to mitigate unemployment risks during an emergency (SURE) is too modest to have a significant impact the COVID-19 crisis beyond
Podcast
15 May 2020
Rebooting Europe: a framework for post COVID-19 economic recovery
COVID-19 has triggered a severe recession and policymakers in European Union countries are providing generous, largely indiscriminate, support to comp
Comment
15 May 2020
Save markets to save the single market
It’s time for the EU to make quick and indispensable progress in forming a capital markets union.
Policy brief
13 May 2020
Rebooting Europe: a framework for a post COVID-19 economic recovery
COVID-19 has triggered a severe recession and policymakers in European Union countries are providing generous, largely indiscriminate, support to comp
Comment
11 March 2020
What if the rest of Europe follows Italy's coronavirus fate?
The silence from Brussels could be as damaging as the silence on Italian streets
Blog post
20 September 2019
Jobs and robots: Europe’s Debate Over the Destiny of the Welfare State
This blog is part of a series following the 2019 Bruegel annual meetings, which brought together nearly 1,000 participants for two days of policy deba
Podcast
04 September 2019
Backstage at BAM19: AI, robots and platform workers
Backstage at the Bruegel Annual Meetings, Giuseppe Porcaro talks with J. Scott Marcus on AI, robots and platform workers.
Event
09 July 2019
AI, robots and platform workers: What future for European welfare states?
At this event, we launch the study, "Digitalisation and European welfare states", authored by Georgios Petropoulos, J. Scott Marcus, Nicolas Moës, and
Book
09 July 2019
Digitalisation and European welfare states
EU policymakers must find answers to pressing questions: if technology has a negative impact on labour income, how will the welfare state be funded? H
Blog post
18 February 2019
Universal basic income and the Finnish experiment
The preliminary results on the Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiment in Finland, and what they mean for the long-standing questions over the potenti
Podcast
24 January 2019
Backstage: Policy principles for a new social contract
This episode of The Sound of Economics features Bruegel senior fellow Zsolt Darvas in conversation with Maurizio Bussolo and Bernadette Ségol about in
Event
24 January 2019
Towards a new social contract
This event will look at a a proposal for a new social contract put forward by the World Bank.
Event
04 December 2018
Civil society for the digital age
What is the place of civil society in the digital age as well as the role of technology in society?