Developing Europe’s policy towards China
Ursula von der Leyen wants to de-risk, not de-couple trade with China, arguing that trade can remain strong as long as the EU can increase its resilience in some strategic sectors
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Citizens protest against compulsion and coercion
Patrick van Schie discusses the provincial elections in the Netherlands, and examines whether this might be part of a broader trend among voters in Western democracies
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Mobilising transition finance
Many jurisdictions now require companies to demonstrate ‘climate alignment’. Alexander Lehmann says investors need tools to evaluate whether transition plans are credible
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Climate risks and global value chains
Extreme weather events will become more frequent as global temperatures rise. Rikard Forslid and Mark Sanctuary analyse the impact of the 2011 Thailand flood on Swedish firms
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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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