Blueprints, Essays and Reports

Relaunching Europe's space economy

This Blueprint analyses the scope for the European Union to become a leader on innovation, sustainability, resilience and security in the space sector

Breaking the deadlock: a single supervisor to unshackle Europe's capital markets union

Green intersections: the global embedding of climate change in policy

Sparking Europe’s new industrial revolution: A policy for net zero, growth and resilience

This Blueprint assesses what must be done to implement industrial policy in a way that will achieve overarching goals while minimising distortions.

Greening Europe’s post-COVID-19 recovery

This Blueprint includes some of the Group’s most prominent voices on the different aspects of the multidimensional issue of green recovery.

A green industrial policy for Europe

This Blueprint examines how the European Union can develop a coherent green industrial policy that will serve the goals of the European Green Deal.

Digitalisation and European welfare states

EU policymakers must find answers to pressing questions: if technology has a negative impact on labour income, how will the welfare state be funded? H

The distributional effects of climate policies

The distributional consequences are likely to be a major driver of future climate policies. Policymakers will not accept forceful decarbonisation poli

People on the move: migration and mobility in the European Union

Migration is one of the most divisive policy topics in today’s Europe. In this publication, the authors assess the immigration challenge that the EU f

Remaking Europe: the new manufacturing as an engine for growth

Europe needs to know how it can realise the potential for industrial rejuvenation. How well are European firms responding to the new opportunities for

An anatomy of inclusive growth in Europe

This Blueprint offers an in-depth analysis of inequalities of income and wealth in the EU, as well as their causes and consequences.

European banking supervision: the first eighteen months

The Blueprint provides a review of the first 18 months of European banking supervision. It reviews the overall situation and thesituation in a numbe

Measuring competitiveness in Europe: resource allocation, granularity and trade

This new Bruegel Blueprint provides a differentiated understanding of growth, productivity and competitiveness and the important role public policy ne

Mapping competitiveness with European data

This blueprint picks up some of the main issues of the MAPCOMPETE project and provides an inventory and an assessment of the data related to the measu

Japan and the EU in the global economy

This report analyses economic issues facing Japan and Europe. It identifies some of the channels through which Europe can learn from Japan, and viceve

Manufacturing Europe’s future

‘Manufacturing Europe’s future’ means getting the policies right for firms to grow and prosper. It is not about picking one sector over another, but p

Electricity without borders: a plan to make the internal market work

To reap the significant benefits from an integrated European electricity market, we propose the following blueprint: add a European system-m

EU-IMF assistance to euro area countries: an early assessment

This study provides an early evaluation of the assistance programmes implemented by the Troika in Greece, Ireland and Portugal. The study assesses the

Breaking down the barriers to firmgrowth in Europe The fourth EFIGE policy report

This report is the sixth and last in a series devoted to the firm-level determinants of export and economic performance. The series started in 2007 wi

The triggers of competitiveness: The EFIGE cross-country report

What are the factors that will trigger the competitiveness of European firms? The authors of this study have worked intensively for three years on the

The great transformation: decarbonising Europe’s energy and transport systems

Economic growth in Europe will be affected by the costs of this transition from the current energy and transport system. A smooth transition towards a

Still standing: how European firms weathered the crisis - The third EFIGE policy report

This report is part of the EFIGE project  and makes use of the data collected during 2009, a especially turbulent time for European firms. It pro

An evaluation of IMF surveillance of the euro area

This report evaluates International Monetary Fund surveillance of the euro area in the years before the financial crisis and during 2008-10.

Global currencies for tomorrow: a European perspective

The global operations of European firms - The second EFIGE policy report

Whither growth in central and eastern Europe? Policy lessons for an integrated Europe

A European mechanism for sovereign debt crisis resolution: a proposal

Lost property: The European patent system and why it doesn't work

Beyond the WTO? An anatomy of EU and US preferential trade agreements

Of markets, products and prices- the effects of the euro on European firms

Divisions of labour: rethinking Europe's migration policy

Higher aspirations: an agenda for reforming European universities

Coming of age: report on the euro area

The happy few: the internationalisation of European firms

The global accounting experiment

Energy: choices for Europe