Robert-Jan Smits, British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium Europe is strong on innovation, more than many of us sometimes realise. We have the largest internal market in the world. We are home to many of the world’s leading innovative companies. …
The EU is unlikely to embrace shale gas as an alternative to Russian gas imports
Corey Johnson is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The reliance of European states on gas imports from Russia has been one of the key underlying factors shaping the EU’s response to the Ukraine …
State governance for happiness of its citizens
Patrick Flavin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Baylor University. Alexander C. Pacek is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University. Benjamin Radcliff is Professor in the Department of Political Science …
Central bank governors in EU & political affiliations
Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik is a visiting researcher at Leiden University. He can be contacted at: l.ennser-jedenastik@fsw.leidenuniv.nl Over recent decades it has become the norm for central banks to be made formally independent from governments and political actors. Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik writes that despite this insulation …
Spending the European Regional Development Fund
Jale Tosun is Assistant Professor of International Comparative Political Economy at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Her research interests comprise a wide range of topics in comparative public policy and political economy as well as political decision-making in the European …
Not one European city in the top 10 for tech talent
Silvia Merler, affiliate fellow at Bruegel think tank Two recent LinkedIn analyses show some interesting facts about work-related migration in the 21st century and how this reshapes the world’s economic environment. The data shows that European countries tend to …
Poundzone vs Eurozone
Waltraud Schelkle is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. She is particularly interested in the political economy of European monetary integration and the role of financial markets for social policy. One …
Lithuania changes the ECB’s voting system
Lithuania will become the 19th member of the Euro area on the 1st of January, following Wednesday’s Council endorsement. The most important part of the story – however – is not that someone is still brave enough to join the …
TTIP to set 21st century trade rules
The United States and the European Union have been engaged in discussions over a free trade agreement, commonly referred to as “TTIP” – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. But after one year of negotiations and debate, is TTIP likely …
The lesson from flight MH17
The crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) has provoked intense debate over the conflict in eastern Ukraine, but what lessons should the crash have for aviation safety? Simon Bennett writes that we must learn from the experience of MH17 and other …