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Is China bailing Russia out?

This episode is part of the ZhōngHuá Mundus series of The Sound of Economics. ZhōngHuá Mundus is a newsletter by Bruegel, bringing you monthly analysis of China in the world, as seen from Europe. Click to read all past editions of ZhōngHuá Mundus Sign up for the...

Is the EU Chips Act the right approach?

The European Chips Act, proposed by the European Commission in February 2022, is intended as a framework giving the Commission more power to steer and shape the European Union’s role in global value chains for semiconductors. The impetus is the shortages of chips...

Europe’s Russian oil embargo: significant but not yet

The European Council this week agreed to a partial ban on imports into the European Union of Russian oil. While not perfect, this deal significantly scales up the EU response to Russian aggression against Ukraine. It was a welcome signal of unity that the embargo was...

An embargo on (most) Russian oil

European leaders have finally agreed on a Russian oil embargo. What are the implications? How long will it take to enforce and what should be the next steps? Bruegel’s Giuseppe Porcaro is joined by MEP Luis Garicano, Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann to talk...

Three headaches for the European Central Bank

Three headaches for the European Central Bank

This opinion was originally published in Money Review. In its latest forecast published on 16 May, the European Commission expects inflation in the euro area to be 6.1% and growth 2.7% in 2022. The last forecasts published by the ECB on the 10 March, predicted...

Ukraine needs external financial assistance now

Ukraine needs external financial assistance now

This opinion piece was originally published in Corriere della Sera, El Pais and Le Monde. Assistance provided to Ukraine, mainly by Europe and the United States, has been dominated by weapon deliveries and military support. Since late April, there has also been a...