Antoine Mathieu Collin
Antoine Mathieu Collin is a Visiting Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in innovation, competition and industrial economics.
He specialises in European public policy, decarbonisation and clean technologies. Additionally, he explores the innovation landscape by leveraging automated text analysis to uncover the origins and dissemination of scientific ideas.
He speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish.
Antoine is on temporary leave from the European Commission's DG Competition, where he served in units in charge of political priorities and state aid policy. He also had a temporary posting in the Cabinet of the Commissioner for Competition in 2023. Antoine's earlier experience includes roles at Bruegel, the French Ministry of Economy and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Antoine is a graduate in Business Economics from HEC Paris, Public Administration from Sorbonne University and Macroeconomics from Panthéon-Assas University. He is currently a PhD candidate in Business Economics and Computer Science at KU Leuven.
Featured work
The European Union’s automotive sector needs a plan, not undue protection
European automotive policy should prioritise affordable competitiveness over protectionism, using resilience criteria and temporary safeguards
What will make Europe's automotive sector more competitive?
Competing for inputs: how the European Union can improve critical raw materials supply security
EU critical raw materials projects fall short of self-sufficiency targets, making trade deals and targeted investment central to supply security
The flaws in the European Union’s proposed Industrial Accelerator Act and how to fix them
IAA provisions should rest on clear sector choices, WTO-safe criteria and FDI screening that welcomes value-adding investment
The Iran energy shock is a test of European discipline on state aid
The latest EU temporary state-aid framework is needed to shield industries and consumers from short-term costs, but should not become more permanent
Europe’s electric vehicle conundrum
What to do about Chinese overcapacity, EU subsidies and the electric transition
‘Made with Europe’ not ‘Made in Europe’ should guide EU industrial policy
The European Union should not go down the path of local-content requirements to protect industry but should remain open to international cooperation
Effectiveness of cohesion policy: learning from the project characteristics that produce the best results
This study by Zsolt Darvas, Antoine Mathieu Collin, Jan Mazza, and Catarina Midões analyses the characteristics of cohesion policy projects that can c
Effectiveness of cohesion policy: Learning from the project characteristics that produce the best results
Testimony at the Committee on Budgetary Control of the European Parliament.
Russia's growth problem
After the 2014-2016 currency crisis, Russia’s economy has returned to growth, albeit at a slow pace. In this Policy Contribution, the authors analyse
Does the Eurogroup's reform of the ESM toolkit represent real progress?
The deal reached on euro-zone reform at the December 4th Eurogroup is not ground-breaking. However, it contains a number of incremental but potentiall
Italy’s floods: How the European Union Solidarity Fund can help
The authors discuss Italy's potential recourse to disaster relief from the European Union Solidarity Fund in the wake of recent floods, focusing speci
Italy’s new fiscal plans: the options of the European Commission
The Italian government has announced an increase of its deficit for 2019, breaking the commitment from the previous government to decrease it to 0.8%
All work
Policy Brief
22 September 2026
The European Union’s automotive sector needs a plan, not undue protection
European automotive policy should prioritise affordable competitiveness over protectionism, using resilience criteria and temporary safeguards
Newsletter
21 September 2026
Policy Brief
09 July 2026
Competing for inputs: how the European Union can improve critical raw materials supply security
EU critical raw materials projects fall short of self-sufficiency targets, making trade deals and targeted investment central to supply security
Policy Brief
21 May 2026
The flaws in the European Union’s proposed Industrial Accelerator Act and how to fix them
IAA provisions should rest on clear sector choices, WTO-safe criteria and FDI screening that welcomes value-adding investment
First Glance
07 May 2026
The Iran energy shock is a test of European discipline on state aid
The latest EU temporary state-aid framework is needed to shield industries and consumers from short-term costs, but should not become more permanent
Podcast
08 April 2026
Europe’s electric vehicle conundrum
What to do about Chinese overcapacity, EU subsidies and the electric transition
First Glance
10 February 2026
‘Made with Europe’ not ‘Made in Europe’ should guide EU industrial policy
The European Union should not go down the path of local-content requirements to protect industry but should remain open to international cooperation
External publication
11 June 2019
Effectiveness of cohesion policy: learning from the project characteristics that produce the best results
This study by Zsolt Darvas, Antoine Mathieu Collin, Jan Mazza, and Catarina Midões analyses the characteristics of cohesion policy projects that can c
Article
27 March 2019
Effectiveness of cohesion policy: Learning from the project characteristics that produce the best results
Testimony at the Committee on Budgetary Control of the European Parliament.
Policy Brief
07 February 2019
Russia's growth problem
After the 2014-2016 currency crisis, Russia’s economy has returned to growth, albeit at a slow pace. In this Policy Contribution, the authors analyse