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Independent and non-doctrinal international economics think-tank with a mission to improve economic policy. www.bruegel.org

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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 8h
🤖 China's AI governance playbook What are the difference of US and China perspectives when it comes to AI governance? 🗣️ Kristy Loke in podcast conversation with @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social & @yuyunzhan.bsky.social 🔗 Listen to the full podcast: buff.ly/EgD6rvW #EconSky
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Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wholesale electricity prices were > €100 for most of Europe last week. european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/UoP5pQ
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Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
European weekly LNG imports are up to levels not seen since April. Higher European prices ahead of winter are pulling cargoes in.
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 02/10/2026
🔔 MONTHLY UPDATE: Global trade tracker 💭 With data available until June 2026 for the EU and the UK, and until July 2026 for the US, Japan and China 🔗 buff.ly/EkQwgTK 🖋️ Madalena Barata da Rocha, @zsoltdarvas.bsky.social, Costanza Greppi Maturana & @marie-lappe.bsky.social #EconSky
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Global trade tracker
This dataset monitors goods-trade developments among major economies in the wake of the 2025 US tariff hikes
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 02/10/2026
📊 Chart of the week: Serbian manufacturing firms undertaking carbon-reducing eco-innovation vs those successfully capturing benefits, 2020-2024 📑 Read the Analysis by @nina-vujanovic.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/6527dJK
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Elina Ribakova @eribakova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Freyja and the making of a European defence industry www.bruegel.org/first-glance...
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Freyja and the making of a European defence industry
More structured and scaled-up defence cooperation, backed with EU funding, will benefit both Europe and Ukraine
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Guntram Wolff @guntramwolff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why we need more EU-Ukraine defence cooperation: - it would strengthen both Ukrainian and European security. - testing weapons in real combat in Ukraine will give European defence firms an advantage. - innovation that comes out of Europe-Ukraine cooperation will not stay within the defence sector.
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 01/10/2026
💻Artificial intelligence, jobs and growth in developing economies 📅6 October | 13:00-14:00 A discussion of the WBG's 2026 World Development Report, with @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social, Debora Revoltella, Gillian Edgeworth, @digitalmario.bsky.social and Gaurav Nayyar #EconSky 🔗Register: buff.ly/T4ONP3V
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 01/10/2026
🪖 Freyja and the making of a European defence industry 📈 More structured and scaled-up defence cooperation, backed with EU funding, will benefit both Europe and Ukraine 📑 Read the First Glance by @eribakova.bsky.social, Natalia Shapoval and @guntramwolff.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/qJ7NsP0
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Freyja and the making of a European defence industry
More structured and scaled-up defence cooperation, backed with EU funding, will benefit both Europe and Ukraine
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 01/10/2026
Explore the book, European Clean Tech Atlas, that documents these economic trends across clean technologies. ✒️ Co-authored by @hecbarod.bsky.social, Benjamin Bjerkan-Wade, @mariejuge.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social, @bmcwilliams.bsky.social & @tagliapietra.bsky.social
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European Clean Tech Atlas
The Atlas tracks Europe's clean-tech transformation, showing how adoption, investment and industrial change are unfolding across the continent
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 01/10/2026
The European energy and industrial system is transforming at breakneck speed. Explained by Bruegel Affiliate Fellow @bmcwilliams.bsky.social in our European Clean Atlas video series.
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Bruegel's Ben McWilliams shares the good news about Europe’s energy transition
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 30/09/2026
📊 The September 2026 update for the China Economic Database is out now! 🗺️ FOCUS: The widening economic gap between Zhejiang and China's northeast 🔗 Explore the dataset: buff.ly/VoLD42f 🖋️ @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social Robin Schindowski, Théo Storella and Jianwei Xu #EconSky
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 30/09/2026
🎙️ NEW PODCAST: Chinas AI governance playbook 🤖 @yuyunzhan.bsky.social & @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social are joined by Kristy Loke to examine how China governs artificial intelligence and what that means for the global AI race. ⏯️ Listen now: buff.ly/EgD6rvW #EconSky
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China's AI governance playbook
China's approach to AI governance and what it means for US-China coordination, AI safety and Europe's role
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 30/09/2026
🔍 First Glance buff.ly/XLnmmzl
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To finance its future, Europe needs a bigger, more targeted budget
Without significant changes, the proposed European Union budget for 2028-2034 will fall far short of EU public investment needs
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 30/09/2026
💡 Does the Commission's proposal for the next #MFF meet Europe's #investment needs? 🖇️ Read the Working Paper and First Glance by @zsoltdarvas.bsky.social, Costanza Greppi-Maturana and @marie-lappe.bsky.social 📑 Full paper: buff.ly/3JCdcbr #EconSky
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An assessment of the 2028-2034 EU budget’s contribution to closing Europe’s investment gap
National spending flexibility in the next MFF risks leaving most of the European public goods gap unfunded, with financial instruments no substitute
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Simone Tagliapietra @tagliapietra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🇪🇺 At the invitation of the Irish Presidency, today in Dublin I addressed European energy ministers on the interplay between electrification and industrial competitiveness. Here are my kick-off remarks. www.bruegel.org/news/europes...
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Europe’s electrification and industrial competitiveness
Bruegel Deputy Director Simone Tagliapietra spoke at the informal meeting of EU energy ministers, in a session on innovation and market design
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Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
〽️ European batteries surpass 100 gigawatt hours How much is that? Equivalent to roughly 10 million household batteries or theoretically storing continental European power generation for 20 minutes. Utility-scale segment growing rapidly y-o-y european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/PnOdfg
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Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Battery electric share of EU vehicle registrations continues to grow and break records. 28 percent of new registrations in August. Up 10 percentage points year-on-year. european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/E2BN1A
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Simone Tagliapietra @tagliapietra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💯 European batteries on the rise! In 2025, stationary batteries exceeded 100 GWh - equivalent to roughly 10 million household batteries. Utility-scale batteries reached 19 GWh. ➡️ Explore battery data in our Bruegel European Clean Tech Tracker: european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/PnOdfg
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 29/09/2026
🌱 How climate policies can speed up manufacturing decarbonisation in the Western Balkans Western Balkan firms are adopting measures to reduce environmental impacts, but smaller local firms need support to comply with EU regulations ✒️ @nina-vujanovic.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/6527dJK
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How climate policies can speed up manufacturing decarbonisation in the Western Balkans
Western Balkan firms are adopting measures to reduce environmental impacts, but smaller local firms need support to comply with EU regulations
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 28/09/2026
🔍 First Glance: buff.ly/UqUs3xe
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Europe should stop banning interest on digital money
Non-remuneration in the EU of e-money and the digital euro lacks an economic basis, burdens less-wealthy households and is increasingly circumvented
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 28/09/2026
📲 Remunerating means of payment Non-remuneration of digital money acts as a distortionary tax, making EU bans on interest for e-money and stablecoins hard to defend. 🔗 Read the Working Paper and First Glance by Ulrich Bindseil 📑 Working Paper: buff.ly/Y6Ron0V #EconSky
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Remunerating means of payment
Non-remuneration of digital money acts as a distortionary tax, making EU bans on interest for e-money and stablecoins hard to defend
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Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An unfortunate consequence of Brexit is that the UK stopped reporting data to Eurostat. We use DUKES to recreate Eurostat-style energy balances 👇 For 🇬🇧 - Electricity is 22 % final energy demand - Wind & bioenergy are fastest growing in FE supply european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/AiSN7w
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 26/09/2026
📊 Chart of the week: Notified subsidies to automotive investment in the EU, by country and by origin of recipient company 📑 Read the new Policy Brief by Benjamin Bjerkan-Wade, Ignacio García Bercero, Antoine Mathieu Collin, @bmcwilliams.bsky.social & @tagliapietra.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/2pW3xbX
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 26/09/2026
❓What’s threatening financial stability? 🗣️ President of @dnb-nl.bsky.social Olaf Sleijpen in conversation with host @rebeccawire.bsky.social and @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social on risks, rates and responses 🔗 Listen to the podcast now: buff.ly/sIqfWmj
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 25/09/2026
🏦 Priorities and trade-offs for the next round of EU banking reform 🔃 📅 13 October 2026 | 13:00-14:30 CET @rebeccawire.bsky.social discusses EU banking reform with Paulina Dejmek Hack (@ec.europa.eu, DG FISMA), Marloes van Schaik (DNB) and @veron.bsky.social. 🔗Register: buff.ly/WYkC6DQ
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 25/09/2026
🪙 Tax policy considerations for the circular economy EU fiscal systems still favour linear production, as virgin extraction stays largely unpriced and labour-intensive repair is penalised 📖 Paper by @roeldom.bsky.social, @heathergrabbe.bsky.social & Costanza Greppi Maturana 🔗 buff.ly/bKpLbds
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Tax policy considerations for the circular economy
EU fiscal systems still favour linear production, as virgin extraction stays largely unpriced and labour-intensive repair is penalised
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Simone Tagliapietra @tagliapietra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨 President Trump is mulling a US diesel export ban ahead of midterms elections: how would this affect Europe? Some numbers and reflections on the matter. @bruegel.org
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 25/09/2026
✒️ Explore the European Clean Tech Atlas: buff.ly/gmvMRej Book co-authored by @hecbarod.bsky.social, Benjamin Bjerkan-Wade, @mariejuge.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social, @bmcwilliams.bsky.social & @tagliapietra.bsky.social
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European Clean Tech Atlas
The Atlas tracks Europe's clean-tech transformation, showing how adoption, investment and industrial change are unfolding across the continent
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 25/09/2026
We've just had another summer of record droughts, heatwaves, and extraordinarily high fossil fuel energy prices - good news might seem scarce. But as Bruegel Affiliate Fellow @bmcwilliams.bsky.social entails, there IS a lot of good news about Europe's energy transition. 📺 Watch the full video
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The good news about Europe’s energy transition with Ben McWilliams | Euopean Clean Tech Atlas
Clean technologies are reshaping Europe — its economy, its energy system and its industrial landscape. The Bruegel European Clean Tech Atlas maps this transformation — bringing together the best…
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Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Since start of summer, Ireland, Italy and the UK stand out for high wholesale electricity prices. Expensive gas still setting the price in more hours than neighbouring countries. european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/Qm-ysQ
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Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The EU has asked China to voluntarily restrict exports of hybrid cars. A focus on hybrids is overdue. Since EU introduced tariffs on BEVs in October 2024, net imports of Chinese PHEVs alone have grown from neutral to €600 million monthly european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/hIuMig
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 24/09/2026
❓ What’s threatening financial stability? 🎙️ In this episode of The Sound of Economics, host @rebeccawire.bsky.social discusses financial stability with @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social and Olaf Sleijpen @dnb-nl.bsky.social 👂 Listen to the podcast now: buff.ly/sIqfWmj
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What’s threatening financial stability?
Dutch Central Bank chief Olaf Sleijpen and Jeromin Zettelmeyer on risks, rates and responses
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 24/09/2026
🔎What shapes Bruegel’s research agenda? Behind every publication is a team of researchers working on the key economic policy challenges facing Europe. 📄 Explore the Research Programme 2026–2027: 🔗 buff.ly/8ANecos #EconSky
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Bruegel is the European think tank that specialises in economics
Our mission is to improve the quality of economic policy with open and fact-based research, analysis and debate.
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 23/09/2026
💻Artificial intelligence, jobs and growth in developing economies 📅6 October | 13:00-14:00 ⚙️A discussion of the WBG's World Development Report 2026 "The Promise of Artificial Intelligence", with @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social, @digitalmario.bsky.social and Gaurav Nayyar (WBG) 🔗Register buff.ly/T4ONP3V
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Simone Tagliapietra @tagliapietra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
💡 EU imports of Chinese plug-in hybrid EVs are surging. PHEV imports are not covered by the EU's additional tariffs on Chinese battery electric vehicles, introduced in December 2024. The EU has now approached China, asking for a voluntary cap on hybrid exports.
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 23/09/2026
🗺️ Denmark’s diplomatic victory in Greenland Trump’s deal with Denmark and Greenland maintains the status quo and makes independence for Greenland less likely 📑 Read the First Glance by @jfkirkegaard.bsky.social 🖇️ buff.ly/v7caLdp
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Denmark’s diplomatic victory in Greenland
Trump’s deal with Denmark and Greenland maintains the status quo and makes independence for Greenland less likely
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 22/09/2026
🔔 UPDATED: Russian foreign trade tracker 📈 The latest update extends country-level data to August 2026, while the 38-country aggregate is available through June 2026. 🔗 buff.ly/Rogo4ro 🖊️ Anna Bahí, Madalena Barata Da Rocha and @zsoltdarvas.bsky.social #EconSky #trade #Russia
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 22/09/2026
📊Finance Focus: Will new live market data publication change Europe’s capital markets? 🗓️9 October 2026 | 15:00-16:00 [ONLINE ONLY] @veron.bsky.social and Eglantine Desautel (CEO, EuroCTP) discuss the lessons and next steps of new live market data accessibility #EconSky 🔗Register: buff.ly/LhE7xFk
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Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🆕 The European Union’s automotive sector needs a plan, not undue protection Faced with electrification, Chinese competition and stagnating domestic demand, the automotive sector attracts justified political attention. But the conversation is too centered around protecting incumbent industry 1/5
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Simone Tagliapietra @tagliapietra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW🚨Automotive is at the very core of Europe's industrial policy concerns & efforts. The challenges are great, and China is only part of the issue. Defensive measures alone will not fix to the problem. Smarter industrial & trade policy actions are urgently required. www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...
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The European Union’s automotive sector needs a plan, not undue protection
European automotive policy should prioritise affordable competitiveness over protectionism, using resilience criteria and temporary safeguards
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 22/09/2026
🚘The European Union’s automotive sector needs a plan, not undue protection 📑 Read the new Policy Brief by Benjamin Bjerkan-Wade, Ignacio García Bercero, Antoine Mathieu Collin, @bmcwilliams.bsky.social & @tagliapietra.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/2pW3xbX
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The European Union’s automotive sector needs a plan, not undue protection
European automotive policy should prioritise affordable competitiveness over protectionism, using resilience criteria and temporary safeguards
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 21/09/2026
🌐💥Winning trade wars or securing trade peace? 📅8 October 2026 | 17:00-18:30 Speakers @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social, Tomas Baert, Chad Bown, Ignacio García Bercero, @soumayakeynes.ft.com, and Maria Martin-Prat discuss the global trading system amid geopolitical tensions #EconSky 🔗Join: buff.ly/tuey8An
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 20/09/2026
🔊State of the Union live📝 🗣️ @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social in conversation with host @rebeccawire.bsky.social, @eribakova.bsky.social and @tagliapietra.bsky.social on the State of the Union speech. 🔗 Listen to: buff.ly/1VVWF2b or watch: buff.ly/PDB3thu the full episode!
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 19/09/2026
🏛️Finance Focus: How will future banking crises be handled in the euro area? In case you missed it, rewatch @veron.bsky.social and Tuija Taos (Board Member, Single Resolution Board) discuss existing banking crisis response frameworks and EU banking union #EconSky 📽️ Rewatch: buff.ly/NE12HXc
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How will future banking crises be handled in the euro area?
Rewatch this event of the Finance Focus series with Nicolas Veron and Tuija Taos
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 18/09/2026
📊 Chart of the week: Defence-relevant funding, 2021-2027 vs 2028-2034 MFFs 📑 Read the Analysis by @javier-ospital.bsky.social and @guntramwolff.bsky.social 🖇️ buff.ly/bQkHhde #EconSky #Defence #MFF
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 18/09/2026
🛣️Moldova's accession path: a conversation with Prime Minister Vasile Tofan 🗓️05 October | 15:00-16:00 Moldova's PM Vasile Tofan and Senior Fellow @zsoltdarvas.bsky.social will discuss how EU integration can anchor and accelerate Moldova's economic transformation #EconSky 🔗Register: buff.ly/keEbUZ0
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 17/09/2026
↗️ Energy, China, defence, the single market – what were her priorities, what does the EU need to do and where will the necessary investment come from? What about security, Ukraine and partnership with Canada? #EconSky 🎥 Rewatch the live episode: buff.ly/QXaLj0Z
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State of the Union live
What are Europe’s priorities and how did Ursula Von der Leyen make the EU case?
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 17/09/2026
🎙️ State of the Union live What are Europe’s priorities and how did Ursula Von der Leyen make the EU case? 🗣️Listen to the podcast discussion with @rebeccawire.bsky.social @eribakova.bsky.social @tagliapietra.bsky.social & @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social #EconSky
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State of the Union live
What are Europe’s priorities and how did Ursula Von der Leyen make the EU case?
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 17/09/2026
🛡️ Defence in the 2028-2034 EU budget With #defence spending set to increase in the next #MFF, it is essential to adapt accountability rules to match. 🔖 Read the Analysis by @javier-ospital.bsky.social and @guntramwolff.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/bQkHhde #EconSky
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More flexibility needs greater accountability: defence in the 2028-2034 EU budget
EU defence funding is set to grow in the next spending cycle, making better accountability essential before final budget rules are agreed
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