Publications

Europeans still want climate action, but don't trust governments to deliver

Despite recent election results, underlying concern about climate change has not changed significantly

Jan Eichhorn and Heather Grabbe

Gender diversity and economic growth

The gains from gender inclusiveness are likely to be much larger than standard economic models estimate

Jonathan Ostry

Clean industrial transformation: where does Europe stand?

Clean-tech investment and employment in the EU are growing, but a major heavy industry decarbonisation push is still needed

Marie Jugé, Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Ben McWilliams, Simone Tagliapietra and Cecilia Trasi

Defending Europe without the US: first estimates of what is needed

Europe could need 300,000 more troops and an annual defence spending hike of at least €250 billion in the short term to deter Russian aggression

Alexandr Burilkov and Guntram B. Wolff

Europe’s energy information problem

Choices are needed about responsibilities at European and national levels, expanding existing institutions or creating new independent ones

Ben McWilliams, Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann

Balanced new own resources for the EU budget

Zsolt Darvas and Pascal Saint-Amans

The European Union’s new fiscal framework: a good start, but challenges loom

Nicolas Boivin and Zsolt Darvas

How to improve the European Union’s sustainable finance framework

Five adjustments would make the EU sustainable finance framework more effective at delivering the desired alignment of incentives

Silvia Merler

Europe’s challenge and opportunity: building coalitions of the willing

The European Union should take the lead in convening alliances of countries to counteract threats to the global order

Olivier Blanchard and Jean Pisani-Ferry

Upgrading Europe's electricity grid is about more than just money

Interconnection is vital for European energy security, decarbonisation and cost reduction

Conall Heussaff and Georg Zachmann

Globalisation recedes, conflicts multiply

Lessons learned from COVID-19 and heightened war risks have added to the backlash against domestic manufacturing losses to undermine globalisation

Suzanne Berger

Draghi on a shoestring: the European Commission’s Competitiveness Compass

The proposed EU Competitiveness Compass would set up a conflict between industrial policy and the single market

Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Not yet Trump-proof: an evaluation of the European Commission’s emerging policy platform

This policy brief evaluates the capacity of the EU’s economic strategy to address structural problems and whether policy needs to change under Trump

Heather Grabbe and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Prepare now: Europe must get ready for the coming long-term care surge

In many countries, demand for long-term care services outpaces supply, leading to a ‘care gap’

Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, David Pinkus and Nina Ruer

Are bad governments a threat to sovereign defaults? The effects of political risk on debt sustainability

In this paper, we ask whether the level of political risk in a country threatens its debt sustainability

Samantha Ajovalasit, Andrea Consiglio, Giovanni Pagliardi and Stavros Zenios

European public goods: the time for action is now

New priorities, including defence and energy security, justify a European public goods approach – for which spare financial capacity can be used

Kalin Anev Janse, Roel Beetsma, Marco Buti, Klaus Regling and Niels Thygesen