Digital economy, labour markets, skills and health

Blogs review: Inequality and the recovery

What’s at stake: Inequality is again a hot topic in the blogosphere. While the early focus of that debate was about the role of inequality in fos

The World innovation landscape: Asia rising?

Growth in research and development spending globally has been vigorous, averaging nearly eight percent annually during the last five years. An ever-la

UPS-TNT: the eternal struggle between harm and efficiencies

After Olympic/Aegean and Deutsche Börse/NYSE, today’s decision on UPS/TNT is Joaquin Almunia’s third merger prohibition since

Blogs review: A bird’s eye view on Bruegel’s research in the crisis

What’s at stake: On 22 January 2003, the idea of setting up what would become Bruegel had been given a strong impetus by the Chirac-Schröder declarati

Bruegel breaks global glass ceiling for European think-tanks

Bruegel ranked as 1st think-tank in Western Europe, the 2nd worldwide (non-US) and the 1st in International Economic Policy in the 2012 Global Go To T

Christian Kastrop on Bruegel's roots

Georg Zachmann on how to make smart choices for growth

ERC: indispensable for frontier research in Europe

2012 was the year that the European Research Council (ERC) celebrated its 5th birthday.  Although 5 years is still short for a sound evaluat

Thunderbolts in the patent storm – EU and US antitrust strikes in the Samsung and Google-Motorola cases

Standards and standard-setting processes play a key role in fostering European economic development. Standards ensure interoperability of networks and

The Unitary patent: challenges still ahead

On December 11th the European Parliament approved the proposal made by the Competitiveness Council at Ministerial level to create a “unitary” patent t

Bruegel scholars disclose outside interests to increase transparency

On 17 December, Bruegel announced the public disclosure of outside interests of Resident Fellows and managers. Since the think-tank's creation, all sc

Blogs review: Robots, capital-biased technological change and inequality

What’s at stake: What started as a discussion about the rise of automation in manufacturing – and its potential impact on “re-shoring” manufacturing t

European antitrust fines: a new wave of deterrence?

The European Commission just delivered the highest aggregate fine in its history for operating a cartel: €1.47bn (see Euractive). That comes at the en

Bruegel appoints new Board members and Honorary Chairman

Per Callesen and Vincenzo La Via were appointed new members of the Bruegel Board in a General Assembly held on Thursday 29 November in Bruegel's