François Chimits

Jul 4, 2024 | lemonde.fr | François Chimits

Après des décennies d’approvisionnement sans accroc, les Européens ont connu, en quatre ans, une succession de difficultés à pourvoir des besoins pourtant jugés relativement basiques dans les économies avancées. Après les masques sanitaires, ce furent les produits électroniques puis les matériaux de construction, suivis de certains produits alimentaires, avant, plus récemment, quelques médicaments.

Jun 20, 2024 | bruegel.org | François Chimits |Conor McCaffrey |Juan Lopez |Niclas Poitiers

Despite significant progress, air pollution still causes €600 billion in losses each year in the European Union – equal to 4 percent of its annual GDP. These costs stem from productivity losses such as increased absenteeism, the reduction of in-job productivity and harm to ecosystems. Air pollution costs are disproportionately high in eastern Europe and Italy, where losses are projected to remain above 6 percent of GDP until 2030.

Jun 6, 2024 | bruegel.org | François Chimits |Conor McCaffrey |Juan Lopez |Niclas Poitiers

The Chinese government’s strategy to deal with its economic troubles revolves around ‘new productive forces’ that are supposed to be unleashed in strategically important industries, especially green and digital. In practice, this implies government intervention to build domestic advanced manufacturing supply chains. The rationale for these policies is not primarily economic. Instead, they seem to aim at hardening strategic sectors against foreign interference.

May 23, 2024 | bruegel.org | François Chimits |Conor McCaffrey |Juan Lopez |Niclas Poitiers

Geopolitical and economic developments, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and trade disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic, have raised concerns about the European Union’s exposure to hostile countries. The challenge of improving European economic security (which we narrowly treat here as exposure to foreign trade or production shocks) has grown in importance, with various relevant policy measures introduced at EU level.

May 6, 2024 | bruegel.org | François Chimits |Conor McCaffrey |Juan Lopez |Niclas Poitiers

Chinese exports of electric vehicles (EVs) are surging and the European Union is investigating whether they have been supported by undue government subsidies. If such support were to be found, the EU could impose extra tariffs on these EVs. But should it do so? Some who oppose such tariffs argue that the economic cost of Chinese retaliation could exceed any benefits and that slowing down imports of cheap Chinese EVs could slow down the green transition.