Books, essays and reports

Unite, defend, grow: Memos to the European Union leadership 2024-2029

Maria Demertzis, André Sapir and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Europe’s Banking union at ten: unfinished yet transformative

Nicolas Véron offers the first comprehensive exploration of the genesis, implementation and possible future completion of the banking union

Nicolas Véron

Income inequality and the liberal economic order: a not entirely Western perspective

This essay argues that global welfare gains should be safeguarded and built on, not undermined by a blinkered perception of liberalism.

The impact on the European Union of Ukraine’s potential future accession

This report evaluates the impact on the EU of a possible EU accession of Ukraine, focusing on economic consequences and institutional developments.

Zsolt Darvas, Marek Dabrowski, Heather Grabbe, Luca Léry Moffat, André Sapir and Georg Zachmann

A tale of two treatises: the Werner and Delors Reports and the birth of the euro

Focusing on the Werner and Delors Reports, this essay aims to capture key ideas and debates, giving a chronological overview of the EMU process

Ivo Maes

Accelerating strategic investment in the European Union beyond 2026

A potential long-term EU approach to the financing of strategic objectives.

Maria Demertzis, David Pinkus and Nina Ruer

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

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

Philippe Aghion, Ketan Ahuja, Chad P. Bown, Uwe Cantner, Chiara Criscuolo, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Mathias Dewatripont, Ricardo Hausmann, Guy Lalanne, Ben McWilliams, Dani Rodrik, Simone Tagliapietra, Alessio Terzi, Cecilia Trasi, Laura Tyson, Reinhilde Veugelers, Georg Zachmann and John Zysman

The future of work: a transatlantic perspective on challenges and opportunities

A compilation of research outputs from the transatlantic expert group project, in e-book format.

A limping transition: the former Soviet Union thirty years on

The purpose of this essay is to assess where FSU countries are 30 years after the break up of the USSR in terms of their economic and political system

Marek Dabrowski

Economics of access to energy

This chapter discusses the key obstacles that have so far prevented 840 million people worldwide from gaining access to electricity.

Giacomo Falchetta and Simone Tagliapietra

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.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Georg Zachmann, Guntram B. Wolff, Laurence Boone, Simone Tagliapietra, Ottmar Edenhofer, Thomas Wieser, Ian Parry, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Klaas Lenaerts, Robert Stavins, Mirjam Kosch, Michael Pahle, Laurence Tubiana, Sabine Mauderer and Tomasz Koźluk

Instruments of a strategic foreign economic policy

Study for the German Federal Foreign Office produced by Bruegel, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and DIW Berlin.

Georg Zachmann, Guntram B. Wolff, Marcel Fratzscher, Kerstin Bernoth, Gabriel Felbermayr, Niclas Poitiers, Alexander Sandkamp, Mia Hoffmann, Pauline Weil, Katrin Kamin, Malte Rieth, Jacqueline Dombrowski and Sebastian Horn

Global asymmetries strike back

This essay addresses an old question that international relations scholars view as fundamental, but which economists regard as secondary: that of asym

Jean Pisani-Ferry

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.

Reinhilde Veugelers and Simone Tagliapietra

Megatrends: Key Forces Forging Our Future

A vision for Europe to prosper and best serve its citizens

Guntram B. Wolff and Rebecca Christie

A post-Brexit agreement for research and innovation

This report sets out what the Wellcome Trust and Bruegel have learned from a project to simulate a negotiation process between the UK and EU to create

Reinhilde Veugelers, Beth Thompson and Michael Leigh