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An overview of the Recovery and Resilience Plans
On 25 October 2021, Zsolt Darvas, Bruegel Senior Fellow, gave testimony to the public hearing of the European Parliament’s Committee for Budgetary Control (CONT) on the topic “Capacity for proper expenditure controls of the increased budget of the MFF and NGEU”. He...
Is the risk of stagflation real?
Stagflation worry seems to be the new fashion in Europe and other advanced economies, as the experience of the 1970s supply-side shocks, which raised inflation and lowered growth, is actively revisited. In a recent press conference, European Central Bank President...
Is the ECB right to take on climate change?
This opinion piece was originally published in the Money Review section of Kathimerini and is forthcoming in El Economista. By far the biggest innovation in the recent monetary policy strategy review of the European Central Bank (ECB) is the emphasis that it puts on...
Strong, balanced, sustainable and inclusive growth? The G20 and the pandemic
The G20, the leaders of which will meet in Rome on 30-31 October, considers itself the world’s leading forum for economic coordination, committed to the pursuit of strong, balanced, sustainable and inclusive growth. But how effective has the G20 been in dealing with...
Can COP26 save the planet?
With COP26 around the corner, Bruegel Director Guntram Wolff hosts Italy’s Minister for Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani. In this live episode they discuss what the Italy G20 Presidency would like to see from Glasgow: the need for adaptation and mitigation,...
Chinese economic statecraft: what to expect in the next five years?
This is an extract from a chapter by written by Alicia García-Herrero for ‘Storms Ahead: the Future Geoeconomic world order’, edited by Johann Strobl and Heiko Borcher. China’s Achievements After 100 Years of Single Party Rule The start of economic reform under...
Understanding the socioeconomic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women
On 26 October 2021, Maria Demertzis, deputy Director of Bruegel, gave testimony to a public hearing of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) on gender equality objectives in the resilience and recovery fund and the national...
How green are electric vehicles?
Read the full policy paper as published in Le Grand Continent. Globally, transport is responsible for 24 percent of CO2 emissions from fuel combustion. Hence, decarbonisation scenarios (e.g., IEA, IRENA, WEF) regularly stress the importance of electrifying the...
COP26: why carbon pricing is crucial to China’s climate change pledges
Read the full opinion piece published in the South China Morning Post.
Can the EU fiscal rules jump on the green bandwagon?
Read the full opinion as published on the View, Euronews.
Don’t let up – The EU needs to maintain high standards for its banking sector as the European economy emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic
This study was prepared for the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). The study is available on the European Parliament’s online database, ‘ThinkTank‘. Copyright remains with the European Parliament at all times. The European banking...