Blog post
29 April 2021
Plans for spending European Union recovery funds submitted by the four largest EU countries reflect rather different priorities. So far, only Italy is
Blog post
03 February 2021
Europe’s policymakers will have to take a series of decisions in the months ahead, in order to reinstate, and possibly reform, the bloc’s fiscal ruleb
External publication
01 December 2020
As part of a volume on the Multiannual Financial Framework, the EUI recently published a chapter by Grégory Claeys on the creation of a euro area budg
Blog post
12 November 2020
How much cake does everyone actually get and at what speed?
Policy brief
27 October 2020
Ensuring effective recovery spending is a high-stakes challenge for the European Union, with the potential for derailment because of fuzzy objectives
Blog post
06 October 2020
To deliver on the goals of the European climate law, the European Union needs finally to get coal out of its energy mix: the EU should quicken the pac
Opinion piece
25 September 2020
Next Generation EU, was rightly hailed as a major breakthrough: never before had the EU borrowed to finance expenditures, let alone transfers to membe
Blog post
21 September 2020
European Union green bonds, as promised by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, might be better linked to the bloc's achievement of its
Policy brief
11 September 2020
With the European Union for the first time taking on debt to help finance the economic recovery from the coronavirus, new resources are needed to fund
Event
07 July 2020
How do we make the EU fit for future?
Blog post
06 July 2020
In its proposed Recovery Fund, the European Commission uses allocation criteria mainly linked to infection rates and past economic performance. To fos
Blog post
17 June 2020
Poorer European Union countries and those hardest hit economically by the COVID-19 crisis could obtain up to 15% of their GNI in grants and guarantees
Blog post
11 June 2020
The European Parliament and the Council still have an opportunity to improve the Just Transition Fund by refocusing it on social support and basing fu
Blog post
10 June 2020
Because of hurdles in designing, approving and implementing European Union programmes, less than a quarter of the €438 billion in grants planned under
Blog post
29 May 2020
Apart from decisive European Central Bank measures, the EU-wide response to the COVID crisis had been rather weak until the Commission put on the tabl
Event
29 May 2020
Can we rescue the economy after COVID-19 and reach the environmental goals?