💰🔴 At the #PolicyConference 2026, the 1st panel discusses how the EU can implement more ambitious spending and financing of priorities via resources outside of the EU budget bit.ly/SustainableE... 🗣️ 🔺 @matthiasecke.bsky.social 🔺Ludovic Voet 🔺 @annakrzyzanowska.bsky.social 🔺 @piroskadora.bsky.social
Dóra Piroska
@piroskadora.bsky.social
International Political Economy, banking and finance, Eastern Europe, Vienna
My alma mater, and from talking to people it is doing just great these days.
My department - @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - is hiring two PERMANENT posts in any area of politics, international relations, theory, or development studies. Please apply if you are on the academic job market, and if you're not, please do us a solid & spread the word! Deadline NOV 9.
🚨 Call for Applications: Postdocs We’re looking for postdoctoral researchers for the following research areas and topics: - Political Economy - Economic Sociology - Technology and Statehood - Wealth and Social Inequality 🗓️ Application deadline: Dec. 11 📢 Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/UzLEpr
That's the way!
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
70 Fußballfelder Ackerland, Millionen Liter Kühlwasser und ein enormer Stromverbrauch – das Google-Rechenzentrum in Kronstorf betrifft die Region nachhaltig. Es braucht jetzt mehr Bürger_innenbeteiligung und eine transparente Gesamtprüfung. Unterschreibe dafür hier: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/st...
Jetzt unterzeichnen: GOOGLE Kronstorf. Wir fordern eine transparente Gesamtprüfung aller Risiken!
Der Bau des Google Rechenzentrums in Krontsdorf braucht mehr Transparenz und Kontrolle. Denn die Folgen für Wasser, Stromversorgung und Böden sind noch nicht ausreichend geklärt.
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70 Fußballfelder Ackerland, Millionen Liter Kühlwasser und ein enormer Stromverbrauch – das Google-Rechenzentrum in Kronstorf betrifft die Region nachhaltig. Es braucht jetzt mehr Bürger_innenbeteiligung und eine transparente Gesamtprüfung. Unterschreibe dafür hier: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/st...
Jetzt unterzeichnen: GOOGLE Kronstorf. Wir fordern eine transparente Gesamtprüfung aller Risiken!
Der Bau des Google Rechenzentrums in Krontsdorf braucht mehr Transparenz und Kontrolle. Denn die Folgen für Wasser, Stromversorgung und Böden sind noch nicht ausreichend geklärt.
mein.aufstehn.at
A modern heating system doesn’t need a soloist. It needs a choir. 🎶 Tartu brings together waste heat, river water, thermal storage, district cooling and renewable energy to create a system that reduces fossil fuel dependence. 🎥 See how Tartu found its harmony: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCE1...
Harmony in heat: a new chapter for district energy
YouTube video by Bankwatch
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This group must be super interesting for @quinnslobodian.com to look at closely www.rhinegroup.eu
Rhine Group — A stronger, more competitive Europe
The Rhine Group convenes European leaders from business, government, and academia to turn evidence into action for Europe's growth, competitiveness, and innovation.
rhinegroup.eu
More evidence that Warsh wants a Quadrant III Fed (no conferences, no fwd guidance). Fewer FOMC meetings mean a Fed that not only communicates less with the public but also less internally, a set of policies that seem unlikely to produce either financial stability or democratic accountability.
Warsh Considers Reducing Frequency of Fed Policy Meetings (Gift Article)
The Federal Reserve has met at least eight times a year for decades. Reducing the number of meetings would represent the biggest change by Kevin M. Warsh since he became chairman.
nytimes.com
Under Warsh, the Fed is committed to a regime of no forward guidance and (at least through December of this year) regular press conferences. What are the consequences of this policy for democratic accountability and financial stability? I jotted down this 2x2 to think through those questions.
even if only 1% has been skimmed, that's $130 million. 🌮 has famously said that he controls disbursements. kleptocracy gone wild. financial times 22 july 2026
I wrote a "casual" introduction to the book, starting with an anecdote about my mom and I getting into an argument about the use of antibiotics. chenchenzhang.net/2026/06/25/a... take a look and I hope the book could make it to your summer reading list!
A casual introduction to the book
When my parents visited us in England, one day my then 3-year-old son had a minor viral infection and a fever. We took him to the GP and, as expected, were told to give him paracetamol and monitor.…
chenchenzhang.net
Die Koalition will einen Rentenfonds nach 🇸🇪 Vorbild, in den 2% des Lohns fließen. Wie schon bei Lindners Aktienrente (remember him?) greift die progressive Kritik an diesem Element der #rentenreform viel zu kurz. Internationale Evidenz zeigt: Kapitaldeckung = Finanzialisierungsmaschine. 🧵
Jót beszélgettem Lits Benedekkel a Corvinus Egyetem hallgatójával az euróbevezetés és a gazdaságpolitika kapcsolatáról. Itt hallgatható open.spotify.com/episode/2a8K...
Piroska Dóra: Az eurózónában nem folytatható az Orbán-kormányok aktivista bankpolitikája
Világpolitika és Közgazdaságtan · Episode
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Jót beszélgettem Lits Benedekkel a Corvinus Egyetem hallgatójával az euróbevezetés és a gazdaságpolitika kapcsolatáról. Itt hallgatható open.spotify.com/episode/2a8K...
Piroska Dóra: Az eurózónában nem folytatható az Orbán-kormányok aktivista bankpolitikája
Világpolitika és Közgazdaságtan · Episode
open.spotify.com
We’re getting ready for the @ebrd.bsky.social Annual Meeting! On 5-7 June 2026, the EBRD will hold its annual meeting in Riga, Latvia. Like every year, we’ll be there with our civil society partners to advocate for development that benefits people and the planet. 🔗 bankwatch.org/ebrd-annual-...
Frauen ab 18 Jahren erwarten beim Female First kostenlose Coachings, Workshops, Expert*innen-Talks, Infos zu Förderungen und die Möglichkeit, mit Arbeitgeber*innen ins Gespräch zu kommen. Alle Infos dazu gibt es hier: https://www.waff.at/e/female-first-frauen-beruf-chancen-mai-2026/
In 2024, 58% of children born in Vienna had a mother born abroad. For Austria as a whole, the figure was 36%. About half of foreign-born mothers came from the EU, especially from Germany and Romania. The rest came from non-EU countries (Syria, Bosnia, Turkey). #demography www.birthbarometer.at/en/
Don’t miss next week’s session in our online series on Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE): Amy Verdun on “Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies”. 📅 May 27, 3–4pm CET 📍 online 📧 Sign up: maxcpe@mpifg.de @uvic.ca s.gwdg.de/NXuc2p
#AI policy everywhere uses "risk management (RM) frameworks". But that, @leevisaari.eurosky.social and I argue, creates blind spots: future AI harms that cannot be quantified and attributed to specific actors fall by the wayside. RM thus limits democratic control. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I will never get used to the vacuous synchronicity of American leisure alongside wars: the latest bridal fashion, old Kindles dying, best chocolate. Life goes on in wars, always. But this cover is not about life - it is about forgetting, denial, erasure and … consumption.
3/❗At the same time, transition goes beyond the funding cycle, and its impacts will continue well beyond 2027. The experiences of the analysed countries offer significant insight into how the EU can continue supporting regions undergoing transition in the decades to come.
1/🤔To be or not to be continued? Our new report with Forum Energii explores this question in the context of the Just Transition Fund and its impact in Czechia, Germany, Greece, Poland, Romania and Spain. bankwatch.org/wp-content/u...
Mood from Hungary from yesterday, so good: vm.tiktok.com/ZNR4ESNa1/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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Congrats Stuart! Looks great! More excellent research on the @ebrd.bsky.social
This is out in the wild a little sooner than I'd anticipated! If you don't have institutional access - 50 free eprints here www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZFHUM... or just email me.
This is out in the wild a little sooner than I'd anticipated! If you don't have institutional access - 50 free eprints here www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZFHUM... or just email me.