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Feb 3, 2025 | 
cyprus-mail.com | Maria Demertzis |Charalambos Stylianou |Iole Damaskinos
By Maria Demertzis For all the talk about the harm of global tariffs and trade wars, the EU could give business a significant boost––while increasing its own revenues from trade––by concentrating on removing internal barriers to trade between countries in its own Single Market. As we enter 2025, tariffs, trade wars and global fragmentation are the biggest worries for European executives.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Nicolas Véron |Maria Demertzis |Juan Lopez |Juan López |Luca Léry Moffat
Ask your question on Sli.do #RegulationIn partnership with the Korean Institute of Finance (KIF), Bruegel will host a discussion on the evolving landscape of virtual asset regulation. With South Korea seeing developments in legislation in this area, the event offers an opportunity to compare perspectives with KIF scholar Jeong Doo Lee, highlighting key regulatory challenges and innovations in both regions.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
cyprus-mail.com | Maria Demertzis |Rebekah Gregoriades |Andria Kades |Theo Panayides
By Maria Demertzis The private sector can cover at least half of the investment gap identified in Mario Draghi’s competitiveness report but will only do so if the EU’s regulatory incentives improve. Europe’s 800 billion euro investment gap, as outlined by Mario Draghi in his competitiveness report last month, has set out a reform agenda for the next 10 years in the EU. The figure represents almost 5 per cent of the EU’s GDP.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
lopinion.fr | Maria Demertzis
Le déficit d’investissement de 800 milliards d’euros de l’Europe, tel que décrit par Mario Draghi dans son rapport sur la compétitivité le mois dernier, a défini un programme de réformes pour les 10 prochaines années dans l’UE. Ce chiffre représente près de 5 % du PIB de l’UE ; en comparaison, le plan Marshall, qui a reconstruit le continent après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, représentait entre 1 et 2 % du PIB à l’époque.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
intereconomics.eu | Maria Demertzis
The Russian invasion of Ukraine exposed the EU’s economic vulnerabilities: excessive energy dependence on an unreliable partner and an unbalanced reliance on exports instead of domestic consumption and investments. Economic security became the number one priority and revealed two urgent needs: for greater diversification and for greater reliance on own domestic economic production.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | André Sapir |Maria Demertzis |Zsolt Darvas |Luca Léry Moffat
You face three main challenges: maintain the EU’s commitment to open markets at home and abroad by continuing to adhere to the multilateral rules-based trading system; continue to sign and implement free-trade agreements; and head-off the resistance from the Global South to trade-climate policies such as the carbon border adjustment mechanism.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Nicolas Véron |Giulia Gotti |Conor McCaffrey |Maria Demertzis
As a result of the extensive regulatory activity triggered by the Great Financial Crisis and the euro-area crisis, the area of financial services has seen a clear shift towards broad-based acceptance of primarily EU-level regulation and, to a lesser extent, also supervision. This shift remains unfinished, however. The two main areas in which greater EU integration is both necessary and achievable in the near term are banking crisis intervention and capital markets supervision.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Maria Demertzis |Pascal Saint-Amans
The Memos to the European Union leadership have been a Bruegel tradition since 2009. Every five years – after the European elections but before a new European Commission takes office – we take stock of EU economic policies, reflect on the EU's main challenges, make recommendations on how the new leadership should address them.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
bruegel.org | Alicia Garcia-Herrero |Maria Demertzis |André Sapir |Nicolas Véron
BookMemos to the new EU leadership. André Sapir,Nicolas Véron,Zsolt Darvas,Reinhilde Veugelers,Carlo Altomonte,Georg Zachmann,Jim O‘Neill,Rainer Münz,Guntram B. Wolff,Silvia Merler,Mario Mariniello andSuparna Karmakar04 September 2014
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
cyprus-mail.com | Maria Demertzis |André Sapir |Jeromin Zettelmeyer |George Kassianos
By Maria Demertzis, André Sapir, Jeromin Zettelmeyer After every European election, Bruegel produces a series of memos to the new European Commissioners that will take office in Brussels. The first of those memos, published last week, is addressed to the presidents of the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament. Our message is that the European Union will need to become more united when dealing with the multiple threats it faces now and in the future.
