📊 UPDATED: European natural gas demand tracker ✨ With data now updated to July 2026 🔗 Explore the dataset here: buff.ly/4dzHgNT 🖋️ Compiled by @mariejuge.bsky.social, @bmcwilliams.bsky.social and @gzachmann.bsky.social #EconSky

📒Can AI regulation balance harm mitigation and innovation incentives? 📅2 September | 14:00–15:00 Chaired by @digitalmario.bsky.social, this session examines whether the EU can simplify its AI rules without backtracking and enforce them without hindering innovation. #BAM26 🔗https://buff.ly/QuWg7cw

🟢 Mapping Europe’s clean energy and industrial transformation 📅 2 September | 10:30–11:30 CEST The global market for clean technologies is expanding rapidly, reshaping industrial competition and international value chains. #BAM26 🔗 buff.ly/hOGSq6q

🌅 Can climate policy survive? 🗓️ 2 September | 09:10-10:10 CEST 🪑 Chaired by @gzachmann.bsky.social, this panel will discuss what can be done to rescue, invigorate, and improve climate policy - both mitigation and adaptation, at the EU and the international level. 🔗 buff.ly/EhIXxb5 #BAM2026

🛡️ How can Europe maximise the impact of its rearmament spending? 📅 2 September | 14:00–15:00 CEST Chaired by @guntramwolff.bsky.social, the panel will examine how Europe can improve defence procurement, technological priorities and value for taxpayers. 🔗 buff.ly/EhIXxb5 #BAM26 #EconSky

💼 Are jobs disposable now? 🔄 🗣️ Paul Osterman (MIT) discusses with host @rebeccawire.bsky.social and Bruegel’s Alexandre Mendonça on how AI, technology and contracting change the way companies and workers relate. #EconSky 🔗 Listen to the full episode: buff.ly/ph26Tfw

🏗️ Building the best safe asset 🗣️ Agnès Bénassy-Quéré in conversation with host @rebeccawire.bsky.social, @smerler.bsky.social and @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social on The Sound of Economics 🎙️ Listen to the podcast now: buff.ly/xxzZNK4

The EU will allow up to 5% of its 2040 emissions target to be met via international carbon credits. This cannot just be a cheap compliance loophole. It must be a strategic lever to drive global decarbonisation. New @bruegel.org brief with Annabelle Weisser. 🧵 1/10

📊 The July 2026 update for the China Economic Database is out now! 🟢 FOCUS: China’s diversification around the dollar 🔗 Explore the dataset: buff.ly/VoLD42f 🖋️ @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social Robin Schindowski, Théo Storella and Jianwei Xu #EconSky

🏙️ Future-proofing European banking 📅 2 September | 15:30–16:30 CEST Chaired by @rebeccawire.bsky.social, this panel will discuss key considerations and upcoming policy for the future of the European banking system. #BAM26 🔗 Check out this panel and the full programme: buff.ly/QuWg7cw

🪙 Can Europe become more “Schumpeterian” and how? 📅 2 September | 17:00–18:00 CEST  🪑Chaired by Reinhilde Veugelers, this panel will discuss what policies need to change to encourage faster exit by inefficient firms, & easier entry & scale-up of innovative ones? #BAM26  🔗 buff.ly/jUCKovn

🌐 International carbon trading: a strategic lever to boost global #decarbonisation 🟢 International carbon credits can support the EU’s 2040 target if buyers’ club rules and leverage ensure real mitigation gains abroad 📑 By @gzachmann.bsky.social and Annabelle Weisser 🔗 buff.ly/YwtP1Hk #EconSky

International carbon trading: a strategic lever to boost global decarbonisation

International carbon credits can support the EU’s 2040 target if buyers’ club rules and leverage ensure real mitigation gains abroad

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📦 European trade policy beyond FTAs: what is feasible without the US and China? 📅 2 September | 17:00–18:00 CEST Chaired by Ignacio García Bercero, the panel will explore options beyond expanding bilateral and regional FTAs. 🔗 buff.ly/EhIXxb5 #BAM26 #EconSky

🎙️NEW PODCAST: Are jobs disposable now? In this episode of The Sound of Economics, @rebeccawire.bsky.social discusses the future of work with Bruegel’s Alexandre Mendonça and MIT professor Paul Osterman. #EconSky ⏯️ Listen now:

Are jobs disposable now?

How do AI, technology and contracting change the way companies and workers relate?

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❗European and Spanish foreign policy: a conversation with José Manuel Albares 🗣️ Catch up on the fireside chat between @jmalbares.bsky.social, @exterioresgob.bsky.social & Bruegel Director @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social 🎥 Watch the recording now: buff.ly/KZQwY9F #Spain #China #trade

#USFinancialSystem #EmergingRisks #GlobalImplications Thank you Nicolas Veron of @bruegel.org for interviewing me yesterday about emerging risks in the U.S. financial system and the implications globally. Here is the recording for anyone who missed this. www.bruegel.org/event/assess...

Assessing emerging risks in the US financial system

At this event, Mayra Rodríguez Valladares explores the key risks facing the US economy and financial system

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🔔 JULY UPDATE: Global trade tracker 💭 With data available until April 2026 for the EU and the UK, and until May 2026 for the US, Japan and China 🔗 buff.ly/EkQwgTK 🖋️ Madalena Barata da Rocha, @zsoltdarvas.bsky.social , Costanza Greppi Maturana & @marie-lappe.bsky.social #EconSky

🌍️Extending CBAM to downstream products risks undermining its credibility as a climate policy tool How to maintain the climate integrity of CBAM without turning it into a protectionist measure? ✒️ Maximilian Fuchs, Ignacio García Bercero & @camille-reverdy.bsky.social #EconSky

Extending CBAM to downstream products risks undermining its credibility as a climate policy tool

The current proposals to extend CBAM's coverage are more about trade protection than stopping carbon leakage

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🚨 Save the date for Bruegel Annual Meetings! 🏰2-3 September at Académie royale de Belgique 📑 The Bruegel Annual Meetings 2026 will explore the trade-offs shaping Europe's future 🔗 Visit our Events page to learn more: buff.ly/QuWg7cw 🎉 Looking forward to seeing you in September! #BAM26

📊 Chart of the week: India FDI inflows by origin ($ billions), 2006-2024 (excluding OFCs) 🏭 How can the #EU and #India build on their FTA to tap India's economic potential? 📝 By @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social, Rajeswari S. and @nina-vujanovic.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/yBh6zhU #EconSky

In Jan '26, the #EU and #India finalised free trade agreement #FTA after 2decades of negotiations, delivering major #tariff liberalisation & marking India’s most ambitious trade deal Yet, in @bruegel.org paper, @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social Sengupta & I argue that big economic opportunity is missed!

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Sharing our paper that I co-authored with Rajeswari Sengupta and Nina Vujanović for @bruegel.org: "Beyond tariffs: why #Europe and #India must prioritise investment into manufacturing". www.bruegel.org/working-pape...

🎙️ What you need to know about ETS 🔍 A podcast refresher on how the ETS works and what changes might be coming before the European Commission presents it revision of EU's Emissions Trading System. With @rebeccawire.bsky.social @floramarchioro.bsky.social & @tagliapietra.bsky.social

What you need to know about ETS

How does the EU’s emissions trading system work and what changes are coming?

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COMING UP in 30 MINUTES #USBanks #USNonbanks #FinancialStability I will be speaking with @bruegel.org about emerging risks in the U.S. financial system today, Thursday, July 15 at 9:00am EDT. Please remember to register. www.bruegel.org/event/assess...

Assessing emerging risks in the US financial system

At this event, Mayra Rodríguez Valladares explores the key risks facing the US economy and financial system

bruegel.org

Prompted by the renewed closure of the Strait of Hormuz here our piece from only one month ago. The brief reopening during the ‘truce’ didn't fix the underlying 13 mb/d global shortfall. [Link to article: www.bruegel.org/analysis/europe-must-prepare-possible-oil-supply-crunch] 🧵 1/6

🌍 A plan for a World Trade Organization sectoral agreement on semiconductors With trade weaponisation straining WTO rules, could a semiconductor pact demonstrate how to manage security risks? 💡 By Petros C. Mavroidis and Mario R. Palacios 🔗 buff.ly/xeL14RP #EconSky

A plan for a World Trade Organization sectoral agreement on semiconductors

Trade weaponisation is straining WTO rules, but a semiconductor pact could show how to manage security risks

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Sharing our paper that I co-authored with Rajeswari Sengupta and Nina Vujanović for @bruegel.org: "Beyond tariffs: why #Europe and #India must prioritise investment into manufacturing". www.bruegel.org/working-pape...

Beyond tariffs: why Europe and India must prioritise investment into manufacturing

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🚨 A sober look at the case for common EU debt 🪙 More EU debt will not lower public borrowing costs or deepen markets without fiscal-union features, permanent issuance and credible fiscal backstops 📑 Read the new Working Paper by Marie-Sophie Lappe & @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social 🖇️ buff.ly/4hoLUWw

NEW ETS TRACKER🚨 Ahead of the important review of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), we at Bruegel are launching today a new data platform that makes it easy to explore the key facts and figures behind the EU’s flagship climate policy. ets.bruegel.org

Bruegel ETS Tracker

Bruegel's ETS Tracker is an interactive repository of information about the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS1). The Tracker provides aggregate data on emissions compliance, free allocation of carbon...

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We have something new for you! Today we launched the Bruegel ETS Tracker. Based on the great work by Jan Abrell you can now easily access: - emissions by sector, location, installation, time - allocation - auction revenues - carbon prices ets.bruegel.org [feedback more than welcome]

📣 NEW DATASET 🌍 EU Emissions Trading System Tracker 🖋️ By Jan Abrell, @mariejuge.bsky.social, @floramarchioro.bsky.social, @bmcwilliams.bsky.social, Thomas Mramor, Roberto Rossini, @tagliapietra.bsky.social and @gzachmann.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/J0fJ35F #EconSky