After 9/11 everyone became an expert on Islam. I became used to friends, acquaintances and strangers offering unsolicited and often offensive advice and opinions on my faith. It has become worse.

Iceland’s rejection of EU membership talks should be seen against a backdrop of new methods of deeper collaboration, especially on security

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…

Study warns women face job losses and increased unpaid care duties as debt and conflict-driven turbulence force spending cuts Women are hit hardest when the debt burden in developing countries rises, a trend expected to worsen as the war in the Middle East continues, UN research shows. A report by experts from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), based on data from 85 countries gathered across three decades, shows women are disproportionately affected when debt repayments increase significantly. Continue reading...

The EU is currently setting up the “Scaleup Europe Fund” to improve financing conditions for scaleups. If designed well, the fund can fill a critical gap in Europe’s innovation financing landscape by ...

Easter is meant to remind us that renewal is possible even after brutality, injustice, and death. I believe that the emerging networks of global solidarity are a renewal of our humanity.

An outline plan to reduce stigma associated with short-term borrowing from the Federal Reserve may be doing banks too many favours

An outline plan to reduce stigma associated with short-term borrowing from the Federal Reserve may be doing banks too many favours

Abstract. Climate adaptation requires actionable scientific information about potential climate impacts. Spatial climate analogs answer the question, ‘wher

Climate models, impact models and demographic data are used to estimate the number of people projected to experience unprecedented lifetime exposure to extreme climate events across multiple dimension...

Technocracy has come to be increasingly regarded as a threat to representative democracy. Significant attention has thus been recently devoted to exploring public preferences towards technocratic ins....

Without turning away from the United States, it is vital for Ireland to remain unambiguously and progressively engaged in collective action in support of Europe

More than 40 civil society organizations and 20 experts signed an open letter calling on the European Central Bank (ECB) to green its monetary policy this year. The signatories emphasize the need to r...

#MonetaryPolicy201 is a monthly series about the basics of monetary policy. It’s a “201” series because I will be grounding the basics of monetary policy on their largely forgotten legal foundations. ...

This paper experimentally documents discrimination in the formation of professional networks among academic economists. We created fictitious human-like bot acc

The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced it has withdrawn from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS). Whi

The EU Parliament ECON Committee has approved its annual ECB report. There are some wins - but also alarming setbacks. Here’s why it matters and what’s at stake

Mattias Vermeiren

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