Tag: Bruegel
New EU debt rules relieve the burden on highly indebted countries
Brussels The planned reform of the Stability and Growth Pact will bring significant relief for highly indebted countries. You would have to save less than under the current debt rules.…
Rechnet die EU bei den Schuldenregeln mit manipulierten Zahlen?
Berlin/Brüssel Im Herbst wird es bei den Verhandlungen über die Reform der EU-Schuldenregeln ernst. Bereits im September dürften die EU-Finanzminister auf ihrem nächsten Treffen über die Reform sprechen, auch wenn…
Germany and the EU adopt Chinese methods
Brussels, Germersheim “Feet off,” calls the headmaster. The Foreign Minister has paid attention and takes a step to the side. A small robot jerks past her, the students call him…
How Beijing’s dirigisme inspires Brussels and Berlin
Brussels, Germersheim “Feet off,” calls the headmaster. The Foreign Minister has paid attention and takes a step to the side. A small robot jerks past her, the students call him…
EU Parliament passes far-reaching reform of the electricity market
Brussels The European Parliament wants to lower electricity prices for households and companies in the long term and keep them stable. The Industry Committee agreed on a new electricity market…
China introduces export controls on rare metals
semiconductor manufacturing China is reacting to US export restrictions on chips with export controls. (Photo: dpa) Beijing China will restrict exports of the industrial metals gallium and germanium from August.…
Von der Leyen moves away from free trade
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Among other things, the EU Commission is planning strict investment controls and export regulations. (Photo: Reuters) Brussels After years of debate, the US…
Putin received many cancellations for his business meeting in St. Petersburg
Riga The International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg was once of global importance. Year after year, well-known European company representatives traveled to do business with Russia. This year the event…
“Von der Leyen has gambled away”: Rising interest rates put a strain on the EU budget
Brussels In the Ukraine war and in the fight against the energy crisis, the EU mobilized billions – and thinned out its own budget. Now there is another stress factor…
Why Biden is so much more successful with his industrial policy than the Europeans
Bidenomics The Biden program is putting pressure on other economic powerhouses. Joe Biden’s strategy is working: A few months after billion-dollar subsidy programs were approved, massive investments are flowing into…
EU Commission wants to restrict trade with Ukraine again
Freight wagons with grain in Constanta, Romania The abundance of Ukrainian grain depresses prices in several EU countries. (Photo: IMAGO/photothek) Brussels The EU has been helping Ukraine to export its…
Budget policy: EU Commission rejects Lindner
Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner The federal government had proposed that highly indebted euro countries be subject to a uniform minimum requirement for annual debt reduction. (Photo: dpa) Berlin, Brussels…
Lindner’s reform plan for EU debt rules has met with mixed responses
Christian Lindner The Federal Finance Minister has presented his own proposals for a reform of the EU debt rules. (Photo: dpa) Berlin, Brussels, Paris The federal government has received praise…
The specter of deindustrialization
The author Dalia Marin is Professor of International Economics at the TUM School of Management at the Technical University of Munich and Senior Research Fellow at the European think tank…
Green technology Comeback of the command economy? Europe wants to steer production decisions
Ursula von der Leyen The EU Commission President wants to reduce Europe’s economic dependence on China. (Photo: AP) Brussels, Berlin It was a matter of overcoming a precarious dependency and…
Green technology Comeback of the command economy? Europe wants to steer production decisions
Brussels, Berlin It was a matter of overcoming a precarious dependency and strengthening Europe’s sovereignty, even then. The “Plan Calcul”, put into effect by French President Charles de Gaulle in…
Europe needs new rules if Russia offers gas again
the authors Axel Ockenfels (right) is an economist at the University of Cologne. Georg Zachmann is a senior fellow at the Bruegel think tank in Brussels. (Photo: Mauritius, private) Russia…
Russia sanctions: Habeck wants to make circumvention more difficult
Hamburg container port Goods subject to EU sanctions are exported “to a considerable extent” from the EU and thus also from Germany to certain third countries and from there to…
The souvenirs of Boris Pistorius
Good morning, dear readers, other people bring a couple of Blume 2000 tulips or the bottle of Deinhard that was still gathering dust somewhere in the basement when they visit.…
EU spends more money on subsidies than US
Wind farm in Texas The US promotes the green transformation more pragmatically than the EU. (Photo: AFP) Brussels The American subsidy program for green technologies has alarmed Europeans. The 27…