Economy
Can the green transition help in solving fiscal and monetary divergencies in the EU?
Thursday 27 August 2020 |
Petter Aspestrand | OBC Transeuropa
The COVID-19 pandemic may have opened a window of opportunity for the European Union to strengthen its fiscal cohesion and to put the climate transition on the right track.
What will the Euro effect be in Croatia?
Tuesday 06 October 2020 |
Toni Gabrić | H-Alter
Within the next two or three years, Croatia will enter the Eurozone, with the euro becoming the country’s official currency. Entry is expected to have an impact on both foreign trade and society at large, coming with increasing constraints and opportunities.
Big Tech’s aggressive EU lobbying has caused a power shift
Tuesday 20 October 2020 |
Andreas Vou | VoxEurop
The drastic increase of lobbying expenditure by Big Tech companies is denting Europe’s traditionally strict privacy laws and shifting more power into the hands of corporations. And the COVID-19 is playing in the latter's hand.
Diesel cars in the doghouse
in depth
Wednesday 17 January 2018 |
Artur Włodarski | BiQdata
Despite the Dieselgate scandal, diesel-fueled cars are still the most popular in Europe. A trend that is slowly changing, as governments and the public opinion are starting to grasp with their impact on public health.
Nine-in-ten EU regions face revenue plunge
Monday 19 October 2020 |
Eszter Zalan | EUobserver
Almost every local government across the EU expects a sharp decrease in revenues this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Expenditure on health, social services and civil protection has boomed, while income from tourism and the economy is decreasing.
Cyprus: At the centre of the arm-wrestling between Greece and Turkey
Monday 31 August 2020 |
Chloé Emmanouilidis | VoxEurop
The discovery in the last few years of large gas reserves in the region has whetted appetites in Ankara, which has been forcefully demanding its piece of the pie, even at the risk of contesting the limits of respective economic zones as well as provoking the EU’s intervention and threatening the region’s stability.
Europe’s mechanical engineering industry is set to bounce back next year
Wednesday 02 September 2020 |
Kashyap Raibagi | VoxEurop
After observing a decline in 2020, the mechanical engineering industry in the EU is predicted to grow next year, in spite of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
How member states have supported their businesses during the pandemic
Wednesday 29 July 2020 |
Danuta Pawłowska | BiQdata
The COVID-19 crisis will lead to a sharp contraction of GDP in all EU member states. From billions for airlines to several hundred euros for small businesses, governments have been supporting their economy in different ways.
Europe: who has the crisis hit hardest?
Wednesday 03 June 2020 |
Guillaume Duval | Alternatives Economiques
European countries are not all equal in the face of the Covid-19 crisis. Both the impact of the epidemic and responses to it have differed greatly, as this overview by Alternatives Economiques shows.
How Covid-19 could increase child labour
Wednesday 01 July 2020 |
Laszlo Arato | EUrologus
Migrant workers’ remittances are economically indispensable to many countries. However, across the world remittances will decline by about 20 percent in 2020 due to the pandemic.
