
European governance
Explore architectural issues facing the European Union that will fuel the policy debate for the coming years.
COVID-19 will continue to affect all aspects of our lives and by extension the economy. This resulted in a continuation of major policy measures both at EU and member-state levels to manage the health and economic crises.
At European level, the Next Generation EU programme has radically changed the way the EU finances itself, interacts with financial markets and supports national recoveries. In late April, countries began submitting their Recovery and Resilience Plans. Bruegel scholars monitor the national plans as they were submitted, providing a comprehensive dataset and a series of analyses throughout the year.
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The tyranny of EU treaties
It is an overdue question whether those agreements are still fit for purpose or if they must be changed.

A quantitative evaluation of the European Commission’s fiscal governance proposal
This paper focuses on the fiscal adjustment that the first regulation would require of countries with debt above the treaty benchmarks.

European Union debt financing: leeway and barriers from a legal perspective
The paper investigates the legal feasibility of the EU borrowing on the capital market to finance European public goods.

Making sense of the European Commission’s fiscal governance reform plan
This Policy Brief offers proposals to enhance institutional self-commitment to implementation, with reputational consequences for non-implementation.

The UK must learn that concessions cut both ways
Brexit may have come and gone, but the UK still wants to make decisions like it is part of the gang.

The Ukrainian war economy
This paper analyses Ukraine’s war economy management and performance, according to information available in June 2023.
