Blog post
08 February 2022
The puzzle of European Union recovery plan assessments
Identical European Commission assessments that EU countries’ recovery plan cost justifications are ‘medium-quality’ undermine trust in the assessments
Blog post
08 February 2022
Identical European Commission assessments that EU countries’ recovery plan cost justifications are ‘medium-quality’ undermine trust in the assessments
External publication
09 December 2021
Financing post-pandemic recovery via EU borrowing has proved remarkably straightforward. So why keep it temporary?
Policy brief
10 November 2021
What is new about NGEU is not just the increase in the EU’s borrowing power, but also the nature of the expenditure.
External publication
02 November 2021
Testimony before the European Parliament’s Committee for Budgetary Control (CONT) on the topic "Capacity for proper expenditure controls of the increa
Event
01 September 2021
Bruegel Annual Meetings, Day 1- In The Sound of Economics Live session we will discuss the EU recovery fund, its state of play and outlook.
Podcast
01 September 2021
Live from the Annual Meetings: Bruegel Director Guntram Wolff discusses the EU recovery fund, its state of play and outlook with Nadia Calviño, First
Event
08 July 2021
At this event the CEO of Assicurazioni Generali, Philippe Donnet was in conversation with Guntram Wolff, Director of Bruegel.
Event
23 June 2021
In this event, participants will take a closer look at the recovery plans submitted by EU countries.
Blog post
29 April 2021
Plans for spending European Union recovery funds submitted by the four largest EU countries reflect rather different priorities. So far, only Italy is
Blog post
03 February 2021
Europe’s policymakers will have to take a series of decisions in the months ahead, in order to reinstate, and possibly reform, the bloc’s fiscal ruleb
External publication
01 December 2020
As part of a volume on the Multiannual Financial Framework, the EUI recently published a chapter by Grégory Claeys on the creation of a euro area budg
Blog post
12 November 2020
How much cake does everyone actually get and at what speed?
Policy brief
27 October 2020
Ensuring effective recovery spending is a high-stakes challenge for the European Union, with the potential for derailment because of fuzzy objectives
Blog post
06 October 2020
To deliver on the goals of the European climate law, the European Union needs finally to get coal out of its energy mix: the EU should quicken the pac
Opinion piece
25 September 2020
Next Generation EU, was rightly hailed as a major breakthrough: never before had the EU borrowed to finance expenditures, let alone transfers to membe
Blog post
21 September 2020
European Union green bonds, as promised by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, might be better linked to the bloc's achievement of its