Juan Mejino-López
Juan Mejino-López is a Research Analyst at Bruegel. He has worked on different topics including defence, banking and financial literacy.
His research has covered defence economics, corporate governance, banking, financial literacy, environmental policy and institutional management, following an empirical and quantitative approach. His master’s thesis studied the relation between automation and offshoring in Spain, as well as automation impacts on the Spanish labour market.
Juan speaks Spanish, English, French and Catalan.
He has more than 3 years of professional experience as an economist working on public policy in the academic and consultancy sectors before joining Bruegel. He studied Economics (BSc) at the University of Salamanca, with a one-year Erasmus exchange at KU Leuven. He was granted a scholarship from Ramón Areces Foundation to pursue a MSc in Economics at the University of Warwick.
Featured work
Europe’s dependence on US foreign military sales and what to do about it
Europe’s reliance on US arms raises autonomy concerns, as security worsens and leaders aim to cut strategic and technological dependence
Fit for war by 2030? European rearmament vis-a-vis Russia lagging in numbers and technologies
EU Banking Sector & Competitiveness
The US defence industrial base can no longer reliably supply Europe
Europe has long relied on US weapons but the US military industrial base faces constraints and its production may be redirected elsewhere
All work
Policy Brief
13 October 2025
Europe’s dependence on US foreign military sales and what to do about it
Europe’s reliance on US arms raises autonomy concerns, as security worsens and leaders aim to cut strategic and technological dependence
Report
20 June 2025
Report
28 May 2025
Analysis
18 December 2024
The US defence industrial base can no longer reliably supply Europe
Europe has long relied on US weapons but the US military industrial base faces constraints and its production may be redirected elsewhere
Analysis
12 December 2024
What enlargement could imply for the European Union’s budget
The entry of nine new countries into the EU would impact the EU budget modestly while boosting national revenues for current members
Analysis
09 December 2024
Europe’s economic challenges discussed at the European Forum Alpbach
At the 2024 forum (17-30 August 2024), Bruegel participated as a Track Reporting Partner covering the finance and economy track
First Glance
28 November 2024
Better braced for disaster: upgrading EU support mechanisms
The European Union needs to adapt its emergency funding mechanisms to the increasing number and severity of climate catastrophes
Policy Brief
20 November 2024
A European defence industrial strategy in a hostile world
Any strategy will need to take account of evolving Russian capacities, evolving political willingness and evolving defence industrial capacities
External publication
23 October 2024
Analysis
16 July 2024
On the digital euro holding limits
The plan for a retail digital euro holding limit, combined with a ‘waterfall approach’ to smooth transactions, sets up an apparent clash of objectives