Bruegel - Improving economic policy

🚀 Autonomy in orbit: Europe’s place in the new space economy 📅 8 July 2025 13:00-14:00 CET⁠ ⁠ ⌛ Next week! At this event we will launch the new Bruegel Blueprint on the European space economy, and explore the topic with experts. ⁠ With: 1️⃣ Chair: Reinhilde Veugelers, Senior Fellow, Bruegel 2️⃣ Jordi Casanova, Head of Telecoms and Space, EU Public Policy team, Amazon 3️⃣ Matteo Cascinari, Partner, Space, Primo Capital 4️⃣ Charlotte Van Camp, Policy Assistant, European Commission, DG DEFIS 5️⃣ Emilio Vez Rodríguez, Head of Industrial Policy Section, European Space Agency - ESA ⁠ 🔗 Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/ggFCAinr

🎙️The EU’s capital markets quest In this episode of The Sound of Economics, host Rebecca Christie discusses how common financial-services supervision could jumpstart the EU single market with Bruegel’s Nicolas Veron and Enrico Letta, former Italian prime minister and author of the EU’s flagship single-market report. They talk about ways to boost the European Securities and Markets Authority, the current regulator, and move away from national silos by putting ESMA offices in every member state. They also discuss how better capital markets would make the EU more competitive and lead to a stronger and safer European economy. 🔗 Listen to the episode here: https://lnkd.in/gAx72qem

🚨 JOB VACANCIES 🚨 As Bruegel - Improving economic policy continues to expand its work on energy and climate, we are currently recruiting three new profiles: i) Data scientist; ii) Economist; iii) Programme officer. Please feel free to apply/share: https://lnkd.in/dYCqB-j6

📢 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 📊 We are looking for an Energy and climate Data Scientist to join us as soon as possible! 🔍 Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with an expected start date of September. 🔗 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eS3BUx2R

#WednesdayMorning read on Euractiv How can the Western Balkans make EU integration a success story? Important implications highlighted especially to those countries closer to the EU! https://lnkd.in/dRU-pbtD #EU #WesternBalkans #Albania #Montenegro #NorthMacedonia #CRM #SingleMarket

⛽𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐚𝐬 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 26 𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞, summarised by Ugne Keliauskaite: 🔝 Q2 total gas imports: reached their highest quarterly levels since Q3 2023, primarily driven by record-high imports from the US. 🔍 June LNG imports: America maintains relatively high import volumes. Imports from the Middle East hit a record low, while Russian imports increased to their highest level in four months. 🔺 Week 26 imports remain above 2023/24 levels. 📈 Russian gas flows via Turkstream reached seasonal high levels of 2024. ✨ LNG regasification stood at 93% in Poland, 89% in Croatia and 88% in the Netherlands. 💡 Reverse flows to Ukraine are decreasing but remain above the seasonal levels. ⛽ Gas storage continues to increase at a similar rate to 2022, currently at 59% of capacity in the EU, while Ukraine’s storage is at 11% of capacity. 🔗 Check out all relevant data in our European natural gas imports dataset here: https://lnkd.in/emVEGiAi Compiled by Georg Zachmann, Ben McWilliams, Ugne Keliauskaite & Giovanni Sgaravatti.

🪴 Building coalitions for climate transition and nature restoration The planet’s future depends increasingly on emerging and developing economies, meaning that success in stopping global warming and halting biodiversity loss hinges on whether these countries adopt low-carbon, nature-positive development paths, and if they do so quickly. How can advanced economies support this, especially in the absence of the US? 4️⃣ In this Policy Brief, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Beatrice WEDER DI MAURO and Jeromin Zettelmeyer propose a four-pillar strategy to support climate and nature preservation in line with the economic interests of both developing and advanced countries. 🔗 Read the Policy Brief here: https://lnkd.in/em5KjpPt 📝 Published jointly with CEPR - Centre for Economic Policy Research, this Policy Brief features in CEPR's Paris Report 3, titled: Global Action Without Global Governance: Building coalitions for climate transition and nature restoration. 💡 Find the report here: https://lnkd.in/eimYSiZ2 🎤 Want to know more? Attend CEPR's launch event for the report, where authors will present and discuss the Paris Report in detail. ⏰ Jul 9, 2025, 16:00 CEST 💻 Link to register for the webinar: https://lnkd.in/erisTSpP

🛡️ How Europe can live with NATO’s ill-conceived defence spending target With many EU member states already fiscally constrained, is the newly agreed 5% defence spending target realisable? 🎯 Roel Beetsma, Marco Buti and Francesco Nicoli argue that the new targets are unrealistic and politically unsustainable for countries to meet individually. Citizens in any case prefer spending to be better targeted than simply increased. 💭 Could joint financing at the European level provide the answer? 🔗 https://lnkd.in/epb7WXkd

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🌍 The implications of G7 agreement on the global minimum tax After months of negotiation, on 28 June the G7 countries reached a compromise on a global minimum corporate tax. In return for its support, the US secured a carve out for its companies. A straightforward win for the Trump administration? 🔍 Pascal Saint-Amans notes that while the US' success in winning a carve-out for its companies could be regarded as a defeat for Europe and other G7 countries at face value, the details of the agreement reveal a more complex picture. 🔗 Read the First Glance here: https://lnkd.in/edBAZ6ef