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Taming inflation?
The latest economic forecasts published by the European Commission as well as IMF show low growth and high inflation. Maria Demertzis is joined by Grégory Claeys and Megan Greene to discuss the economic outlook on both sides of the Atlantic. They discuss the...
Xi, Biden switching strategies for dominance
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Job quality is about more than working conditions
People spend a significant portion of their lives at work; job thus has a huge impact on a person’s well-being. This week on The Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro is joined by Laura Nurski and Janine Berg to discuss how to enhance job quality, how technology will...
REPowerEU: will EU countries really make it work?
The European Commission on Wednesday 18 May published its plan setting out how the European Union can eliminate its dependency on Russian fossil fuels. A phase out of Russian coal imports by August 2022 has already been agreed within the fifth package of sanctions...
Does the war in Ukraine call for a new Next Generation EU?
The COVID-19 crisis will remain a major turning point in the history of fiscal federalism in Europe. Before the pandemic, fiscal stabilisation was the sole responsibility of national budgets. But in 2020, EU leaders decided to create Next Generation EU (NGEU), a new...
Buy now, pay later: the age of digital credit
This opinion was originally published in Money Review. Did you know that 70% of online shopping trips end in failure in the sense that shoppers fill their digital baskets then abandon them? According to Shopify, a multinational e-commerce company, digital retailers...
Now is not the time to confiscate Russia’s central bank reserves
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, all significant jurisdictions that issue convertible reserve currencies have acted decisively to freeze their respective shares of the international reserves of the Bank of Russia. As the costs of Ukraine’s resistance mount, there...
The EU needs transparent oil data and enhanced coordination
The authors are grateful for helpful comments by Coby von der Linde, Prof. Giacomo Luciani and Milosz Karpinski. The European Union is discussing a phased embargo on all imports of Russian crude oil and oil products (hereafter oil). This will affect 30% of EU crude...
The EU needs transparent oil data and enhanced coordination
The authors are grateful for helpful comments by Coby von der Linde, Prof. Giacomo Luciani and Milosz Karpinski. The European Union is discussing a phased embargo on all imports of Russian crude oil and oil products (hereafter oil). This will affect 30% of EU crude...
The cost of China’s dynamic zero-COVID policy
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...
Insights for successful enforcement of Europe’s Digital Markets Act
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act, agreed in principle at EU level in March 2022, will give the European Commission new enforcement powers that could shape the business models of some big tech companies. The Commission will oversee 21 new competition rules that...