Navigating uncertainty
Petros Fassoulas and Aimée Duprat-Macabies stress the importance of social and green policies to build a just and resilient European economy
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EU’s digital competition law can give users more control
Christophe Carugati believes that the EU’s Digital Markets Act gives regulatory authorities another chance to tackle the difficult issue of user consent for data processing
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Bringing European public goods to the centre of the policy debate
Marco Buti, Alessandro Coloccia and Marcello Messori argue that a well-functioning economic union needs a permanent central fiscal capacity
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How will higher carbon prices affect growth and inflation?
Carbon pricing is a central instrument in the EU’s fight against climate change. Claus Brand, Günter Coenen, John Hutchinson and Arthur Saint Guilhem use macroeconomic models examine what higher prices for carbon emissions will do to growth and inflation
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The EU’s strategic dependencies unveiled
Román Arjona, William Connell Garcia and Cristina Herghelegiu examine the EU’s dependencies in traded goods and find that the EU benefits greatly from its wide participation in international value chains
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Time to step up policy coordination in the euro area
The euro area economy has shown impressive resilience. Nevertheless, Reinhard Felke and Nicolas Philiponnet argue that policymakers should sustain vigilance and action
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If it doesn’t trade, is it really marketable debt?
Rebecca Christie says Europe’s bond markets are essential infrastructure, just like the power grid
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Is Europe failing on import diversification?
Lennard Welslau and Georg Zachmann find that despite a goal of economic self-reliance, the EU’s imports are generally sourced from an increasingly limited set of suppliers
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Ukraine’s needed post-war institutional changes
Tymofiy Mylovanov and Gerard Roland argue that Ukraine must strive to become a full-fledged liberal democracy and identify priorities for the country’s institutional reconstruction
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Has the DMA got it wrong on app stores?
Bertin Martens argues that the app-store obligations in the EU’s Digital Markets Act are unlikely to weaken the market power of Apple and Google
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