Caroline de Gruyter
European Affairs correspondent, NRC Handelsblad
Caroline de Gruyter is a journalist and lecturer based in Oslo. She is a Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, a columnist for Foreign Policy and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She spent more than twenty years covering Europe, including from Brussels, Geneva and Vienna.
In her recent book Beter Wordt Het Niet (German edition forthcoming) Caroline compares the EU to the Habsburg Empire, which by muddling through multinationally survived for centuries.
Featured work
20 years of improving economic policy: story of Bruegel, story of Europe
Bruegel’s founders recount the think tank’s creation and its journey to becoming a key player in Europe’s economic policy landscape
All work
Podcast
22 January 2025
20 years of improving economic policy: story of Bruegel, story of Europe
Bruegel’s founders recount the think tank’s creation and its journey to becoming a key player in Europe’s economic policy landscape
Conference
01 September 2021
Bruegel Annual Meetings, 1-3 September 2021
The 2021 Annual Meetings gathered high-level speakers and participants to discuss how to recover from the crises brought on by the Covid pandemic
Event
03 September 2021
Conference on the Future of Europe: envisioning EU citizens engagement
Bruegel Annual Meetings, Day 3 - Panellists will discuss different options and what they may entail while revisiting the debates on the future of Euro