The Sound of Economics
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What visions for Europe? Unpacking EU parties’ economic strategies
The EU elections are around the corner. What economic plans are the parties advocating for?
Climate change, the next big financial threat
A warming planet poses new risks to European sovereign debt. How can the continent protect itself?
1982: the debt crisis that could have destroyed Western banking
What we can learn from four decades of financial turmoil and recovery
One grid to rule them all? The future of a European single electricity market
Envisioning a better-integrated European electricity market
Capital markets union - why now?
What is hindering the EU from achieving a Capital markets union?
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20 December 2019
A decade to remember (or possibly to forget) for economists
2019 is coming to an end and so is the decade. How did economics change the world over the last ten years? And did the world change economics? Which e
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19 December 2019
The Sound of Margrethe Vestager
Will AI exacerbate the gap between big companies and small ones? Do ordinary Europeans gain anything from having European tech giants? This week, Nich
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16 December 2019
Capture the nodes
How do states exercise power through global economic networks? The multilateral world order is supposed to be harmonious, but by seizing the nodes of
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12 December 2019
Appellate Body Politic
This week, the WTO's Appellate Body, the dispute settlement body, became inoperational: it no longer has the necessary number of judges to render verd
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11 December 2019
What's inside the European Green Deal?
President Ursula Von der Leyen has presented her European Green Deal before the European Parliament. How will it work? What are its implications? And
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10 December 2019
Getting post-Brexit trade deals done
The UK goes to the polls on Thursday to decide who (and if) they want to "get Brexit done". But, as soon as Britain leaves, it will have 11 months to
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05 December 2019
The Belt and Road anxiety
Is the Belt and Road initiative a global development plan or is it just a trade project? How concerned should the international community be with what
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28 November 2019
The EU-Russia-China energy triangle
Russia wants to export more gas to China, should the EU be concerned? This week, Nicholas Barrett is joined by Georg Zachmann to discuss the EU-Russia
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20 November 2019
Ethics and Algorithms
Will the EU's regulations undermine its power of innovation? How can the EU protect its values while harnessing technology? These are some of the ques
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14 November 2019
How to make the European Green Deal work (Part Two)
Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff discuss industrial policy and the social consequences of the green deal with Grégory Claeys and Simone Tagliapietra
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14 November 2019
Cars, steel and national security: The EU-US trade spat
Guntram Wolff is joined by Alan Beattie, the author of the FT's new Trade Secrets newsletter, and by Andre Sapir, Bruegel's very own trade expert to d
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07 November 2019
How to make the European Green Deal work (Part One)
The European Green Deal will be a defining feature of Ursula Von der Leyen's incoming Commission. But will carbon border taxes and single carbon price
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31 October 2019
How not to spend it
Buying a car, a house or a cryptocurrency has never been easier: with a simple click, digital banking has made financial operations accessible to ever
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23 October 2019
How to Spend it
Can governments make their fiscal policy go further? And are they trusted enough to try? This week The Sound of Economics asks if the quality of publi
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17 October 2019
The Art of the Brexit Deal
An emergency Brexit podcast to dissect today's tentative deal between the EU27 and the British Government, featuring Maria Demertzis, Guntram Wolff an
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11 October 2019
Brexit: a European Odyssey
Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff talk to Kalypso Nicolaïdis, author of Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit. Together they discuss
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