Those claiming Hong Kong is no longer important to China don't show the full story. We need to look beyond GDP and consider China's soft spot: access to foreign capital with a relatively closed capital account - writes
@Aligarciaherrer
>>
🇷🇺 ECONOMY
"Voluntary sanctions are hitting Russia really badly" -
@sguriev
gives an overview of the state of the Russian economy in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine. w/
@mariademertzis
&
@GuntramWolff
👉
🔔PRESS RELEASE
Jeromin Zettelmeyer
@jzettelmeyer
has been appointed by Bruegel’s board to succeed Guntram Wolff
@GuntramWolff
as our director, starting in September 2022.
🇷🇺 ECONOMY
"Russia was a modern country a few weeks ago and not it's back to 1990-1991" -
@sguriev
gives an overview of the state of the Russian economy in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine. w/
@mariademertzis
&
@GuntramWolff
👉
Erkki Liikanen is Bruegel's new chairman.
"I am grateful to Jean-Claude Trichet for his intellectual curiosity, his defence of intellectual independence, his wise guidance; and look forward to working with
@LiikanenErkki
" -
@GuntramWolff
PR:
🚜 FOOD SECURITY
The full impact of the war in Ukraine on food security will not be felt until next crop season. Listed are the 20 countries most exposed to a global food supply shock.
@PaulineWeil
@GeorgZachmann
👉
🚨 ⛽️ NEW
The European Union should apply a tariff on imports of Russian oil; it can be accompanied by a quota for a gradual, conditional phase-out of all Russian oil imports.
@DavidKleimann
@McwilliamsBen
&
@GeorgZachmann
European income inequality begins to fall once again according to the Gini coefficient of income inequality in the EU and the US between 1988-2016
@ZsoltDarvas
CO2 emissions per person per km traveled:
🛩️Domestic flight: 254g
✈️Long-haul flight: 195g
🚘Car with 1 person: 171g
🚐Bus: 104g
🚗Car with 4 people: 43g
🚃Train: 41g
🚄High-speed train: 6g
Source:
@DefraGovUK
“If the European Union can mediate effectively to resolve current Greek-Turkish tensions over energy in the Eastern Mediterranean, it could also provide an opportunity to tackle more deep-rooted problems.” NEW BLOG by
@MLEurope
:
📊 CHART
Second wave lockdowns caused much less economic damage than the first and brought the transmission down to similar levels
🗣️
@ojblanchard1
and
@pisaniferry
👉
How did Bruegel perform in the 2019 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report?
🥇 Think tank worldwide (outside the US)
🥇 Think tank in Western Europe
🥇 Top international economic policy think tank
🥇 Think tank with outstanding policy-oriented research programs
🇪🇺 ENERGY DEPENDENCE
Short-term cost of reducing energy dependence on 🇷🇺 could amount to €100 billion: €50 billion to rebuild reserves plus €25 billion extra cost of other supplies plus €25 billion for intra-EU distribution
@pisaniferry
👉
"Today's the opening of a Pandora box. Poland will turn to this kind of argument and say: “even the Germans do it, we don’t have to obey claims of the supremacy of EU law”. This is extremely catastrophic. The ECJ must react: they can’t just let this happen" -
@prof_mayer
#BVerfG
LIVE NOW: The Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court granted several constitutional complaints directed against the Public Sector Purchase Programme of the European Central Bank.
Join the analysis w/
@GuntramWolff
@prof_mayer
&
@porcarorama
🇪🇺 GAS DEMAND
Replacement of Russian gas by LNG has largely reached its limit. Lower imports from Russia can now only be met by reducing EU gas demand.
@GeorgZachmann
@McwilliamsBen
👉
🚨 NEW BLOG
Russia has recorded a record trade surplus, but more than half of its increase is due to the collapse of imports, which could undermine the Russian economy’s productive capacity.
@ZsoltDarvas
@_Cat_Martins
🇷🇺 SANCTIONS
Different EU countries would be affected to different degrees by sanctions on Russian exports. The EU should design support policies for the most-affected countries.
@5mgrzegorczyk
@nfPoitiers
@GuntramWolff
@PaulineWeil
👉
🔢 NATIONAL RECOVERY PLANS DATASET 🇪🇺
Our new dataset of 23 European Union countries’ recovery and resilience plans is now available to view! Watch this space for further assessment and analysis!
📅 ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF WAR
@sguriev
joins
@mariademertzis
&
@GuntramWolff
to discuss how the Russian invasion of Ukraine will affect the economies of Russia and the world.
🕑 10 March - 10:00 CET
📉 JOB BURNOUT
One way to improve policy models would be to measure worker outcomes (like burnout) as a check of whether policy interventions in job quality succeed in improving worker well-being.
@mia_hoffmann_
@LauraNurski
👉
🔢 🇪🇺 NATIONAL RECOVERY PLANS
So far 🇬🇷🇮🇹🇷🇴 have requested the full amount available to them, while 🇨🇾🇵🇱🇵🇹🇸🇮 have requested between 16% and 37% of the loans available to them. Countries have until until 31 August 2023 to request loans 👉
(1/7) 🚨 Analysis of the 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇩🇪🇪🇸 recovery plans
"Plans for spending European Union recovery funds submitted by the four largest EU countries reflect rather different priorities."
By
@ZsoltDarvas
@Tagliapietra_S
How many barrels of oil did EU countries consume each day in 2017?
🇩🇪 Germany: 2,450,000
🇫🇷 France: 1,736,000
🇬🇧 Britain: 1,596,000
🇪🇸 Spain: 1,297,000
🇮🇹 Italy: 1,244,000
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 946,000
🇵🇱 Poland: 658,000
🇧🇪 Belgium: 637,000
🇸🇪 Sweden: 327,000
🇬🇷 Greece: 303,000
📅 ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF WAR
@sguriev
joins
@porcarorama
&
@GuntramWolff
to discuss how the Russian invasion of Ukraine will affect the economies of Russia and the world.
🕑 10 March - 10:00 CET
LIVE NOW:
@GuntramWolff
,
@LiikanenErkki
, Janet Yellen, Jean-Claude Trichet and Zhou Xiaochuan ask what monetary policy will look like after the pandemic.
#BAM20
The
#BREXIT
Game:
#negotiations
are beginning to look like a “prisoners’ dilemma”, where both parties have an incentive to be uncooperative, risking an outcome that would be unfavourable for all.
@mariademertzis
&
@viegi_nic
>>
This post focuses on the Sparkassen's structural links and relationships with elected politicians. Three findings which do not appear to have been specifically documented previously stand out. Read the blog by
@JonasMarkgraf
&
@nicolas_veron
>>
European income inequality begins to fall once again according to the Gini coefficient of income inequality in the EU and the US between 1988-2016
@ZsoltDarvas
🏭 MAP
Industrialisation in 19th c Europe “closely coincided with the geological distribution of coal beneath the ground”. To this day, the map of ferrous metal facilities still closely mirrors that of active coal mines.
@McwilliamsBen
@GeorgZachmann
👉
Bruegel is proud to be recognised as a vibrant laboratory dedicated to its mission to improve economic policy with open and fact-based research, analysis and debate.
@TTCSP
INFOGRAPHIC 📉
#COVID19
is destroying youth employment in the EU: policymakers must act to avoid Europe’s youth suffering the scarring effect. | Blog by
@5mgrzegorczyk
and
@GuntramWolff
➡️
🚨 JOB OPENING
We are looking for a new director to take on from
@GuntramWolff
! They will be heading a team of over 65 passionate individuals including 40 leading scholars with transparency and integrity.
Further information here👉
🇪🇺 SANCTIONS
The EU has only sanctioned four of the top 10 Russian banks that do not include Sberbank, adding up to only a quarter of total Russian banking assets.
@JoshKirschGMF
&
@nicolas_veron
👉
Electricity market integration has substantial benefits that will improve the resilience and enable the transition of Europe’s energy system
Policy brief by
@GeorgZachmann
,
@CarlosBatIIe
,
@MoMorawiecka
,
@maurerchr
, Fabien Roques & Francois Beaude out now
🇨🇳📊 GRAPH
American and European businesses continue to be engaged in China’s large and growing market, even amid a trade war between China and the United States. Read the full publication from Uri Dadush and Pauline Weil here 👉
European income inequality begins to fall once again according to the Gini coefficient of income inequality in the EU and the US between 1988-2016
@ZsoltDarvas