Tag: Bruegel

Open newsletter – february 22, 2022

AFGHANISTAN The Taliban is creating a “grand army” for Afghanistan that will include officers and troops who served the old regime, says the official tasked...

Daily news – February 8, 2022

News from: Al Jazeera, Astana Times, Atlantic Council, Brookings, Bruegel, Chatham House, CSIS, Defense News, Defense One, East Asia Forum, Foundation for Defense of...

Daily news – February 1, 2022 p.m.

Afghanistan  A House Divided: The SCO’s Afghanistan Conundrum (Ayjaz Wani, Observer Research Foundation): Separatism, extremism, and terrorism originating in Afghanistan compelled the neighbouring countries to...

The triple constraint on artificial-intelligence advancement in Europe (Mia Hoffmann, Laura Nurski, Bruegel)

Shortcomings in Europe in human capital, data and the financing available all hold up adoption by European firms of artificial intelligence. These same barriers...

EU borrowing—time to think of the generation after next (Rebecca Christie, Grégory Claeys and Pauline Weil, Social Europe)

The issuance of European Union bonds to finance NextGenerationEU (NGEU)—the common recovery programme agreed by member states during the summer of 2020—has begun. This represents a...

An inclusive European Union must boost gig workers’ rights (Mario Mariniello, Bruegel)

Approximately 24 million people in the European Union are estimated to have provided platform services (as of 2018; the market has high growth prospects)....

The Global Gateway: a real step towards a stronger Europe in the world? (Simone Tagliapietra, Bruegel)

On 1 December 2021, the European Union unveiled the Global Gateway, its plan to support infrastructure development around the world. This would mobilise €300 billion...

Instruments of a strategic foreign economic policy (Katrin Kamin, Kerstin Bernoth, Jacqueline Dombrowski, Gabriel Fel belmayr, Marcel Fratzscher, Mia Hoffmann, Sebastian Horn, Karsten Neuhoff,...

The separation of security and economic objectives in foreign policy, which was often sought in international political issues in the past, has outlived its...

Towards efficient information sharing in network markets (Bertin Martens, Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos, Maeshall Van Alstyne, Bruegel)

Digital platforms facilitate interactions between consumers and merchants that allow collection of profiling information, which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to...

Next Generation EU borrowing: a first assessment (Rebecca Christie, Grégory Claeys, Pauline Weil, Bruegel)

The Next Generation EU (NGEU) programme is radically changing the way the European Union interacts with financial markets because of its ambitious and ground...

Concentration of artificial intelligence and other frontier IT skills (Wang Jin, Georgios Petropoulos and Sebastian Steffen, Bruegel)

Online job postings indicate that demand from top tech firms for frontier IT skills is about double their demand for other IT skills. This...

Germany’s post-pandemic current account surplus (Lionel Guetta-Jeanrenaud and Guntram B. Wolff, Bruegel)

The pandemic has increased the net lending position of the German corporate sector. By incentivising private investment, policymakers could trigger a virtuous cycle of...

Making antitrust work for, not against, gig workers and the self-employed (Georgios Petropoulos, Bruegel)

In late September, the Chair of United States Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, urged Congress to consider passing legislation to ensure gig workers who organise do...

A world recovery fund to overcome developing countries’ post-covid debt woes? (Alicia Garcia-Herrero, Brugel)

Read the full policy brief prepared for the International Finance Task Force of the Think20 (T20), the official engagement group of the G20. A world recovery...

Do robots dream of paying taxes? (Rebecca Christie, Bruegel)

Robot taxes embody the more futuristic challenges of managing automation and legacy workers. As machines and artificial intelligence take on more roles that used...

Global Climate Action. Conditions are ideal for a new climate club (Simone Tagliapietra and Guntram B. Wolff, Bruegel)

Annual global greenhouse-gas emissions have been rising steadily for decades and show no sign of peaking. That is, humankind is not making enough progress...