Bruegel Annual Meetings | 3-4 September 2025

The 2025 Annual Meetings were centred around Bruegel's 20th anniversary

Bruegel Annual Meetings | 4-5 September 2024

This year's Annual Meetings centered around the launch of the Bruegel Memos to the European Union leadership 2024-2029

Bruegel Annual Meetings, 6-7 September 2023

A symphony in progress: shaping a new agenda for Europe

Bruegel Annual Meetings, 6-7 September 2022

The Annual Meetings are Bruegel's flagship event which gathers high-level speakers to discuss the economic topics that affect Europe and the world.

Bruegel Annual Meetings 1-3 September, 2020

Bruegel's flagship event transformed into a virtual conference for pandemic times

Bruegel Annual Meetings 2018, 3-4 September

The 2018 Annual Meetings featured sessions on European and global economic governance, as well as finance, energy and innovation.

Tough choices ahead as the US pushes a global artificial-intelligence divide

Though proliferation of AI models is essentially uncontrollable, the US is trying to force a split with China, pushing allies into a no-win bind

European Clean Tech Atlas

The Atlas tracks Europe's clean-tech transformation, showing how adoption, investment and industrial change are unfolding across the continent

From AI adoption to competitiveness: How can European enterprises help close the gap?

Closed-door roundtable with Aaron Ronnie Chatterji, OpenAI Chief Economist

A geoeconomic strategy for Europe: building clean technology partnerships

How to strengthen international cooperation on clean technology supply chains?

Reconfiguring Europe in a changing world

How should Europe adapt its economic model to a fragmented global order?

Europe’s challenges: what is new?

Europe’s policy options for AI in the midst of US-China strategic competition

What lessons can Europe learn from China’s AI strategy?

Quantifying the benefits of reducing EU banking system fragmentation

Join this event of the Finance Focus series with Nicolas Veron and Damien Capelle

EU and India amidst global geopolitics

Annual conference of Bruegel and India International Centre

Why the EU right to consent to personal data processing doesn't work

Consent banners fail GDPR’s promise of informed choice, with fatigue, dark patterns and opaque data uses undermining real control

Ireland’s 2026 EU Presidency: a conversation with Minister Thomas Byrne

What to expect ahead of the upcoming Irish presidency?

The coalition of the willing: a joint effort to fight climate change

Closed-door conference and public panel on International Climate Finance

CANCELLED: The European payments initiative and its Wero digital wallet

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

Mobilising capital for Europe’s green transition: Where do we stand?

How to finance Europe's green transition and strengthen global competitiveness?

Are jobs disposable now?

How do AI, technology and contracting change the way companies and workers relate?

Reducing dollar vulnerabilities

Invitation-only roundtable focusing on Europe's dependence on the dollar and the possible risks it poses

China-EU economic relations and preserving stability amid geopolitical shocks

Closed-door roundtable discussion, jointly organised with the China Finance 40 Forum

How resilient is China? Managing political and economic vulnerability

Managing political and economic vulnerabilities in a fractured geopolitical environment

Biodiversity, climate change, and the financial sector

How can policies reduce risks and create synergies?

Extending CBAM to downstream products risks undermining its credibility as a climate policy tool

The current proposals to extend CBAM's coverage are more about trade protection than stopping carbon leakage

ETS Tracker

This tracker maps the EU ETS through data on emissions, compliance, allowances, auction revenues, prices and installations

A sober look at the case for common European Union debt

More EU debt will not lower public borrowing costs or deepen markets without fiscal-union features, permanent issuance and credible fiscal backstops

European clean tech tracker

This tracker provides an overview of the main innovation, manufacturing and deployment trends in clean tech in Europe

Calls for EU financial-rule simplification should not spill over into lower standards

EU banking rules are under pressure for simplification, but reforms should cut complexity without weakening financial safeguards

The battle for the AI stack

Europe’s options for AI in the midst of US-China strategic competition

Banking reform in the EU: a conversation with Frank Elderson

How should the EU balance banking reform, risk and competitiveness?

How is the Digital Markets Act supporting AI innovation in Europe?

Artificial-intelligence competition in Europe: the role of DMA Article 6(7)

The DMA’s Android AI access rules could curb Google’s advantage, opening Europe’s AI market to rivals and strengthening innovation incentives

The IAA: Accelerating innovation, decarbonisation and industrial leadership in Europe

Will the IAA make Europe a global industrial leader—or highlight its limitations?

Is the global financial system fragmenting?

At this event, Alfred Schipke and Nicolas Veron discussed shifts in the global financial system

Financing Innovative Ventures in Europe: closing the scale-up gap

What are the policy solutions to help new European companies thrive?

From savings to sustainability: long-term investors and Europe’s green transition

How can institutional investors drive Europe’s green energy shift?

Upholding Europe’s sovereignty: strong defence, integrated markets and renewed growth

Bruegel’s 20th anniversary event in Berlin, jointly organised with the German Federal Ministry of Finance

AI adoption in the financial sector: the experience so far

At this event, Marie Brière discussed AI adoption in the financial sector