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Dec 9, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Alicia Garcia-Herrero |Juan Lopez |Juan López |Guntram B. Wolff |Marek Dabrowski
IntroductionThe European Forum Alpbach is an annual conference, staged since the 1940s in Austria, where the challenges faced by Europe and the European Union are discussed. At the 2024 forum (17-30 August 2024), Bruegel participated as a Track Reporting Partner covering the finance and economy track. This article summarises the discussions relating to six issues within that track. The six issues, which are in line with Bruegel’s Research Programme 2024/2025, were:The evolution of inequality.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Marek Dabrowski |Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol |Giulia Gotti |Conor McCaffrey
November 9, 2024, marks the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall - a pivotal moment that led to German reunification. In this special episode of The Sound of Economics, we step beyond the realm of economic policy to explore the personal and historical impact of reunification. Rebecca Christie is joined by Bruegel fellows Marek Dabrowski, Guntram Wolff, and Georg Zachmann.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Marek Dabrowski |Luca Léry Moffat |Niclas Poitiers |Simone Tagliapietra
When Dwight D. Eisenhower said “plans are worthless, but planning is everything”, he meant that plans often prove useless when they are overtaken by events. But, he added, “if you haven't been planning you can't start to work, intelligently at least”.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
intereconomics.eu | Marek Dabrowski
Five years ago, European Commission’s President-elect Ursula von der Leyen declared in her address to the European Parliament the ambitious goal to have a geopolitical Commission and geopolitical European Union.1 Despite repeating this declaration several times, it remained far from fulfilled.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Marek Dabrowski
1. IntroductionThe rapid global economic integration period, globalization1, started in the 1980s and gained momentum in the 1990s and early and mid-2000s. It stagnated after the global financial crisis (GFC) and never regained its previous dynamics. Worse, since the end of the 2010s, the risk of its reversal has intensified.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Georg Zachmann |Ben McWilliams |Zsolt Darvas |Marek Dabrowski
Executive summaryThe energy crisis that started in 2022 reminded European governments of the resilience provided by relatively well-integrated European electricity markets, which have been painstakingly built-up over several decades. European Union leaders thus decided to reverse a creeping energy renationalisation and to invest in completing the internal market.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Maria Demertzis |Marek Dabrowski
Brussels has entered pre-election mode, and over the next few months, there will be a lot of talk about the priorities and objectives the new EU leadership should pursue over the second half of the 2020s. However, given the underlying trends in climate, global governance and digitalisation, priorities should be thought of over a much longer period. The EU needs to fundamentally rethink three issues: scale, strategic investments and skills.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Marek Dabrowski |Nicolas Véron |Maria Demertzis
The European Union’s goal of being more ‘geopolitical’, first declared by then European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen in November 2019 and repeated several times since, remains far from being fulfilled. EU support for Ukraine is the best, though not the only, example of this failure. Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has become the most serious challenge to European security and stability since the Second World War.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
bruegel.org | Zsolt Darvas |Marco Buti |Marek Dabrowski
The 15 October Polish elections showed that the opposition leader Donald Tusk, former European Council president and a former Polish prime minister, has a decent chance of forming a new coalition government to take over from the right-wing Law and Justice Party that has been in power since 2015.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
bruegel.org | Marek Dabrowski |Marco Buti
The European Commission under Ursula von der Leyen between 2019 and 2024 will be remembered for its response to emergencies: the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the energy crisis. The Commission, and the European Union, have been forced to take fundamental decisions under pressure. To the EU’s credit, the errors that marred the response to the Global Financial Crisis have not been repeated. Pro-cyclical fiscal policies and overburdened monetary policies would have been dramatic mistakes.
