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Last but not the least
Following Bruegel’s end-of-year tradition, Giuseppe Porcaro invites Maria Demertzis, André Sapir and Guntram Wolff to review 2021 in economic policy and beyond, especially in pandemic preparedness, inflation as well as geopolitics. The guests also each introduce a...
12 Charts for 21
Year end is always the time for lists. There were hopes 2021 would be a year of recovery and emergence from the pandemic, but unfortunately this does not seem to be the case just yet. This year has also been marked by many other developments including rising...
How serious is Europe’s natural gas storage shortfall?
Europe’s natural gas position is uncertain heading into 2022. Strong demand in the first half of 2021 did not allow for a significant build-up of gas reserves in storage facilities prior to the winter period. As a result, Europe has become particularly dependent on...
Policy coordination failures in the euro area: not just an outcome, but by design
The rationale behind the Maastricht fiscal criteria was to prevent excessive spending (driven by uncoordinated fiscal policies) in response to external shocks. Excessive spending would in turn put market pressure on those ‘undisciplined’ fiscal authorities and...
Market power and artificial intelligence work on online labour markets
The views are those of the authors and should not be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. Frank Mueller-Langer gratefully acknowledges financial support from a research grant of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. We investigate...
The Age of Unpeace: How connectivity causes conflict
Economic orthodoxy argues that the more connected two countries are, the less likely it is for conflict to arise. However, economic theory is starting to change regarding this premise. Guntram Wolff is joined by Mark Leonard, director of the European Council of...
Which platforms will be caught by the Digital Markets Act? The ‘gatekeeper’ dilemma
The European Union Digital Markets Act (DMA), proposed by the European Commission in December 2020 to regulate the ‘gatekeepers’ of the digital world, is making progress towards finalisation. The law, in the form of an EU regulation, could take effect in 2022. At the...
mRNA vaccines: a lucky shot?
The author would like to thank Bruegel researchers for helpful comments. This paper was financially supported by Wellcome Trust, in the framework of the project High Level Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention and Response. MRNA technology has proved...
EU borrowing—time to think of the generation after next
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Inflation ideology: camp permanent or camp temporary?
This opinion piece was originally published in Het Financieele Dagblad, the Money Review section of Kathimerini, the Cyprus Mail and by the Cyprus Economics Society and is forthcoming in El Economista and Borsen Zeitung. The discovery of the latest Omicron variant of...
L’Union européenne et les États-Unis, un an après
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