This Working Paper is an invited contribution produced within the Future of Work and Inclusive Growth in Europe project, with the financial support of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. For many newly emerging jobs, labour-market mismatches prevail as workers...
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For Europe, an oil embargo is not the way to go
Read the full opinion on Politico Europe.
Bruegel annual report 2021
The annual report includes an overview of Bruegel’s research, governance and financial statements, and takes stock of Bruegel’s accomplishments and impact during 2021. Bruegel will continue to work to develop a proactive European strategy to deal with all the...
Beating burnout: identifying bad jobs and improving job quality
The authors are grateful to Bruegel colleagues and members of the Future of Work Excellence Network for valuable feedback, especially Milena Nikolova, Francis Green and Diane Mulcahy, as well as job quality practitioner Seth Maenen. This policy contribution was...
The Global Quest for Green Growth: An Economic Policy Perspective
Read the full piece as published on Sustainability. Economic growth has historically been the main driver of rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To achieve steep emission reductions, the world would have to either decouple global GHG emissions from gross domestic...
Global trade Down Under
Bruegel’s Giuseppe Porcaro and André Sapir sit down with Tim Yeend, Associate Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia. They discuss current global trade environment, Australia’s perspective on the WTO, supply chains, economic coercion as...
A tariff on imports of fossil fuel from Russia
Read the full opinion as published in Welt and upcoming in El Economista and Rzeczpospolita.
A phase out of Russian oil may be less effective than a tariff at reducing Putin’s rents
The European Union’s plan to target Russian oil in the context of its latest sanctions package makes sense as a way to step up pressure on Moscow. Oil is a major source of hard currency for Russia, and since the introduction of financial sanctions has become a vital...
How to weaken Russian oil and gas strength
Read the full Letter published in Science. This piece was also published in longer form as a Bruegel Working Paper.
How a European Union tariff on Russian oil can be designed
A negotiation is underway between European Union leaders on restrictive measures to limit imports of oil from Russia. One option is a full and immediate import ban for crude oil and finished oil products such as diesel. The United States and United Kingdom have...
EU risks letting Putin’s gas divide-and-rule strategy win
This opinion was originally published in Euractiv.
Fiscal support and monetary vigilance: economic policy implications of the Russia-Ukraine war for the European Union
This Policy Contribution is a version of a Policy Brief published by the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The authors thank Thomas Belaich for research assistance, and Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Steven Fries, Philip Lane, Elina Ribakova, Guntram Wolff and...