Winning trade wars or securing trade peace?

Can rules-based trade survive an era of geopolitical rivalry?

Ragnar Nurkse, Bretton Woods and the international economic order

Launch of the Bruegel-published book "Ragnar Nurkse and the Making of the Bretton Woods Paradigm"

BRICs at 25

How do Brazil, Russia, India and China influence today’s global economy?

The US and China will have a red phone for AI emergencies, while Europe is left to watch

European and Spanish foreign policy: a conversation with José Manuel Albares Bueno

What will be the main challenges in European and Spanish foreign policy?

Bruegel Annual Meetings | 2-3 September 2026

As Europe faces defining choices, the Bruegel Annual Meetings 2026 will explore the trade-offs shaping its future

Euro area amidst financial stability risks

How can the EU handle the euro zone's biggest macro-financial risks?

Global trade tracker

This dataset monitors goods-trade developments among major economies in the wake of the 2025 US tariff hikes

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.

Artificial intelligence, jobs and growth in developing economies

A discussion of the World Bank Group’s World Development Report 2026 "The Promise of Artificial Intelligence"

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.

Talks@Bruegel: Ukraine’s political currents with Jakub Parusinski

What are the key political realities shaping Ukraine today?

Assessing emerging risks in the US financial system

At this event, Mayra Rodríguez Valladares explores the key risks facing the US economy and financial system

Quantifying the benefits of reducing EU banking system fragmentation

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

CANCELLED: The European payments initiative and its Wero digital wallet

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

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

What to expect ahead of the upcoming Irish presidency?

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

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

State of the Union live

What are Europe’s priorities and how did Ursula Von der Leyen make the EU case?

Europe still needs to do more to provide real artificial intelligence reassurance

European Union AI rules are built around pre-market risk assessment; more supervision and liability are also needed to deal with post-deployment harm

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

Biodiversity, climate change, and the financial sector

How can policies reduce risks and create synergies?

Can Carbon Border Adjustments Induce Carbon Pricing? Evidence from the EU CBAM

How can Europe address its pressing AI compute infrastructure shortfall?

Europe’s AI compute gap will not close through capital alone, making faster permits, grid access and output-side sovereignty tools essential

China’s artificial intelligence goals and strategic choices for Europe

China’s AI strategy pairs domestic control with global diffusion, aiming to lead innovation, standards and governance on its own terms

Europe’s climate-resilience moment has arrived

As global warming impacts are increasingly felt, the EU should turn climate adaptation from a national responsibility into a genuine European policy

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

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

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

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

AI adoption in the financial sector: the experience so far

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

Programmable sovereignty: coordinated specialisation as a response to the N-2 problem in artificial intelligence

Programmable sovereignty offers states beyond the US and China a way to reduce AI dependence through shared compute and governance capacity

Europe’s challenges: what is new?