The EU’s agendas for economic security, strategic autonomy and competitiveness would benefit from stronger circularity, most notably through eco-design, improved recovery of materials for secondary use and innovation, writes @heathergrabbe.bsky.social. Read here www.intereconomics.eu/contents/yea...
Intereconomics is an academic journal that publishes articles by experts on current economic and social policy issues affecting Europe.
This piece by @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social is very good and well worth your time. Building on the brilliant work by Ruth Wodak and with important insights from @timbale.bsky.social
Intereconomics
Over the last 10 years, the terms of political debate have changed completely – and week by week they seem to get worse
🌿Nature as equity
❓️How can public money and financial markets work together to protect the environment?
🎙️ In this episode of The Sound of Economics, @rebeccawire.bsky.social sits down with Bruegel’s @heathergrabbe.bsky.social & @estellecantillon.bsky.social
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Great summary of our new paper with @gzachmanm below.
How can public money and financial markets work together to protect the environment?
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🗣️ UK Chancellor Rt Hon Rachel Reeves will participate in a fireside chat with Bruegel Director @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social, closing Bruegel's 20th anniversary event today in London. Organised with @lse-ei.bsky.social.
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Encouraging words from @RachelReeves on ambitions for UK-EU:
“Economic gravity is reality … we are up for doing deals with India, US and other countries but half our trade is with the EU” … We are up for deeper alignment for more integration with the EU … including financial services.”
We agree:
📊 Chart of the week: Annual EU direct economic losses from extreme weather and climate events
📑 By @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social, @marie-lappe.bsky.social, @iremonas.bsky.social, Massimo Tavoni and @gzachmann.bsky.social
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⛈️ What action can be taken at the national and European levels to strengthen prevention and adaptation finance?
📑 By @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social, @marie-lappe.bsky.social, @iremonas.bsky.social, Massimo Tavoni and @gzachmann.bsky.social
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⚠️ #Venezuela: the upending of values and another warning to Europe
🌎 If the events of this weekend were a warning, will Europe heed it?
🗨️ Read the First Glance by @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social: buff.ly/1pXFxpv
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Bruegel
Bruegel’s 20th anniversary event in London, jointly organised with the LSE European Institute
Trump's brazen attack on Venezuela presents challenges for China – and opportunities
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Bruegel
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🗣️ UK Chancellor Rt Hon Rachel Reeves will participate in a fireside chat with Bruegel Director @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social, closing Bruegel's 20th anniversary event today in London. Organised with @lse-ei.bsky.social.
🔴 WATCH LIVE
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This week’s heatwave shows how temperatures and rainfall patterns that used to be considered extremes are becoming the norm. But climate disasters don't have to become fiscal crises if EU countries plan better for adaptation investments and risk-sharing: see
www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...
Bruegel’s 20th anniversary event in London, jointly organised with the LSE European Institute
📊 Chart of the week: Annual EU direct economic losses from extreme weather and climate events
📑 By @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social, @marie-lappe.bsky.social, @iremonas.bsky.social, Massimo Tavoni and @gzachmann.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/QN0cs5M
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Climate impacts will become a structural macro-fiscal problem. With low private insurance, EU governments are sleepwalking into becoming disaster insurers of last resort.
Our @bruegel.org Policy Brief on mitigating rising fiscal costs of climate disasters.
🔗 www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...
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Low insurance coverage is turning EU governments into disaster insurers of last resort, strengthening the case for prevention and adaptation finance
