External publication
26 May 2020
On 14 January 2020, the European Commission published its proposal for a Just Transition Mechanism, intended to provide support to territories facing
Event
15 May 2020
Mapping out the post COVID-19 recovery.
Blog post
22 April 2020
European Union debt can provide comprehensive insurance against the COVID-19 pandemic and can enable a macroeconomic response, even though EU debt is
Event
21 April 2020
How can cohesion funds help the National, regional and local communities that are on the frontline in countering the coronavirus and the resulting eco
Policy brief
26 February 2020
On 14 January 2020, the European Commission published its proposal for a Just Transition Mechanism, intended to provide support to territories facing
Opinion piece
26 February 2020
It can be tempting to treat European budgetary discussions as a fairly inconsequential distributional game. But with the EU's role increasingly focuse
Podcast
25 February 2020
The European Green Deal is one of the landmarks of Ursula von der Leyen's Commission. But, without an ambitious investment behind it, what could be it
Blog post
23 January 2020
The gap between payments into the EU budget and EU spending in a particular country has importance when EU spending does not constitute European publi
Blog post
22 January 2020
DSA applies to crisis countries only, but an early warning system identifying vulnerabilities is relevant for all countries. A more general, less stri
Blog post
16 December 2019
This post estimates the United Kingdoms net contribution to the 2021-2027 EU multiannual budget at close to 20 billion, taking into account the most
Working paper
12 December 2019
Whenever the European Unions budget is discussed, much of the political focus is on net balances whether countries pay in more than they receive
Blog post
04 December 2019
A complex system of EU budget revenue corrections has been developed since the mid-1980s. I quantify their impacts: which countries pay and benefit fr
Blog post
24 June 2019
The Eurogroup met on June 13th to discuss the deepening of the economic and monetary union (EMU) and prepare the discussions for the Euro Summit. From
Podcast
20 June 2019
Bruegel senior fellow Zsolt Darvas talks to Sean Gibson in this Deep Focus podcast about how the EU can improve its cohesion policy, citing the best e
Blog post
17 June 2019
The EU fiscal framework strongly relies on the structural budget balance indicator, which aims to measure the underlying position of the budget. But
Blog post
17 June 2019
A campaign against nonsense consensus output gaps has been launched on social media. It has triggered responses focusing on the implications of outp