⌛ Europe’s long-term care gap: longevity risk and health uncertainty 🖋️ By Anna Bahí Esteba, Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, Maria Catarina Louro and Alexandre Mendonça 🔗 buff.ly/KA1Uj3W

Europe’s long-term care gap: longevity risk and health uncertainty

Future EU long-term care demand hinges more on health trajectories than ageing alone, making prevention and healthy ageing central

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🕰️ 1 day countdown to Bruegel Annual Meetings 2026! Explore all sessions and speakers and register now: buff.ly/qqD1KGo We look forward to the discussions tomorrow! #BAM26 #EconSky

📗BOOK DROP TEASER The European Clean Tech Atlas tracks Europe's clean-tech transformation, showing how adoption, investment and industrial change are unfolding across the continent. @tagliapietra.bsky.social walks you through the findings from the book. 📅 Coming 2 September 2026. Stay tuned!

Very glad to chair this session! If interested in the topic, please don't hesitate to join our discussion on the role and position of #Europe in global business today.

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🌐 Europe through the eyes of global business 📆 2 September | 12:00-13:00 CEST 🗣️ Chaired by @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social with Kim Jorgensen, Temasek, Karen Massin, Google and Anton Mifsud-Bonnici, Adani Group 🔗 buff.ly/VsTsgxG #BAM26 #EconSky

Very much enjoyed discussing Europe's variable geometry, the role the mass public, referendums, and populist parties play for European integration, and how Iceland and Switzerland fit into all this with the awesome @rebeccawire.bsky.social & @heathergrabbe.bsky.social on the newest Bruegel podcast:

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🧊 Iceland, Switzerland, Europe 🎙️ In this episode of The Sound of Economics, @rebeccawire.bsky.social speaks with @heathergrabbe.bsky.social & @stefwalter.bsky.social about Iceland’s referendum, Switzerland’s upcoming votes on EU relations & what Europe has to offer for countries. buff.ly/97zxhlv

🇺🇦 Double fireside chat: the path to Ukraine’s membership of the EU 🗓️ 2 September | 15:30-16:30 🎤 Speakers: 1️⃣ Taras Kachka, Mission of Ukraine to the EU 2️⃣ @veron.bsky.social, Bruegel 3️⃣ @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social, Bruegel 🔗 Register: buff.ly/8EP8mpd #BAM2026 #EconSky

🧊 Iceland, Switzerland, Europe 🎙️ In this episode of The Sound of Economics, @rebeccawire.bsky.social speaks with @heathergrabbe.bsky.social & @stefwalter.bsky.social about Iceland’s referendum, Switzerland’s upcoming votes on EU relations & what Europe has to offer for countries. buff.ly/97zxhlv

Iceland, Switzerland, Europe

What should the European Union offer to nearby countries that do not want to become member states?

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📚 On Wednesday, we at Bruegel will launch our European Clean Tech Atlas — a new guide to exploring Europe’s ongoing clean energy and industrial transformation. Join the discussion with Laura Cozzi (IEA), Celine Gauer (EC) and Ben McWilliams by registering here: www.bruegel.org/bruegel-annu...

🌐 Europe through the eyes of global business 📆 2 September | 12:00-13:00 CEST 🗣️ Chaired by @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social with Kim Jorgensen, Temasek, Karen Massin, Google and Anton Mifsud-Bonnici, Adani Group 🔗 buff.ly/VsTsgxG #BAM26 #EconSky

🧓Anticipating Europe’s care transformation: Longevity risk and health uncertainty 🗓️2 September | 12:00–13:00 🗣️Speakers 🔵Chair: Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, Bruegel 🟠Dana Carmen Bachmann, @ec.europa.eu, DG EMPL 🟢@adelinacohe.bsky.social, LSE 🟣Mike Morrissey, MSD 🔗https://buff.ly/mDzbQa1 #BAM26 #EconSky

🚨 Europe’s new anti-money laundering agency ❓ How will AMLA help the EU crack down on financial crime? 🗣️ James Freis in conversation with host @rebeccawire.bsky.social & @veron.bsky.social 🔗 Catch up on the conversation now: buff.ly/soJlmfq

🚨 Can the chasm between EU privacy rules and economic reality be bridged? 🗣️ Chaired by Bertin Martens with Townsend Feehan @iabeurope.bsky.social, Koen Gorissen & @kollnig.net @maastrichtu.bsky.social 📖 Read the discussion paper: buff.ly/R4pl6cs #BAM26  🔗 www.bruegel.org/bruegel-annu...

📊 The August 2026 update for the China Economic Database is out now! 🎓 FOCUS: China’s increasingly pronounced youth unemployment cycle 🔗 Explore the dataset: buff.ly/VoLD42f 🖋️ @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social Robin Schindowski, Théo Storella and Jianwei Xu #EconSky

🎙️ The Sound of Economics Live: The State of the European Union 2026 📅 17 September 2026 | 14:00-15:00 CEST 🔎 With Bruegel Fellows @rebeccawire.bsky.social, @eribakova.bsky.social, @tagliapietra.bsky.social, @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social #EconSKy 🔗 Register to watch the live podcast: buff.ly/SMuhu9u

❌ Why the EU right to consent to personal #data processing doesn't work What technological solutions are available to make Europe's personal data sharing regulations work for users? 🔖 Read the Working Paper by Bertin Martens 🔗 buff.ly/R4pl6cs #EconSky

Why the EU right to consent to personal data processing doesn't work

Consent banners fail GDPR’s promise of informed choice, with fatigue, dark patterns and opaque data uses undermining real control

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🔥The European frog: still "slow-boiling"? 🗓️ 2 September | 08:35-09:10 CEST Join us for a fireside chat with @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social & @carloscuerpo.bsky.social 🔗 Register: buff.ly/VsTsgxG #BAM2026 #EconSky

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐥 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 on a #tax policy trilemma for the #EU: revenue protection, investment neutrality and tax sovereignty cannot be achieved at the same time. The success of anti-avoidance measures made investment more tax-sensitive, reinforcing the case for corporate tax #coordination. @bruegel.org

Profit shifting, tax harmonisation and investment in the EU single market: a trilemma

Anti-avoidance success has made EU investment more tax-sensitive, strengthening the case for corporate tax coordination within the single market

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🪙 Profit shifting, tax harmonisation and investment in the EU single market: a trilemma 📑 Read the new Policy Brief by Madalena Barata Da Rocha, @roeldom.bsky.social, Pascal Saint-Amans & Bo Sangers 🔗 buff.ly/qjGxSAJ #EconSky

Profit shifting, tax harmonisation and investment in the EU single market: a trilemma

Anti-avoidance success has made EU investment more tax-sensitive, strengthening the case for corporate tax coordination within the single market

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#AMLA is coming! Jim Freis and I discuss it here with Rebecca Christie @rebeccawire.bsky.social @bruegel.org

Bruegel@bruegel.org · 7d ago

❗Europe’s new anti-money laundering agency 🗣️ In this episode of The Sound of Economics, host @rebeccawire.bsky.social speaks about how AMLA will help the EU crack down on financial crime with Bruegel’s @veron.bsky.social & James Freis. 🖇️ Listen to the podcast now: buff.ly/soJlmfq

📦 European trade policy beyond FTAs 🗓️ 2 Sep | 17:00-18:00 🪑 Ignacio García Bercero, Bruegel 🎤 Suman Bery, NITI Aayog 🎤 @dittejj.bsky.social, @ec.europa.eu 🎤 @bernd-lange.bsky.social, @europarl.europa.eu 🎤 Clare Kelly, NZ ambassador 🔗 Register: buff.ly/8EP8mpd #BAM2026 #EconSky

❗Europe’s new anti-money laundering agency 🗣️ In this episode of The Sound of Economics, host @rebeccawire.bsky.social speaks about how AMLA will help the EU crack down on financial crime with Bruegel’s @veron.bsky.social & James Freis. 🖇️ Listen to the podcast now: buff.ly/soJlmfq

🔥The macroeconomic implications of the Middle East conflict🪙 📅 2 September | 12:00–13:00 🗣️ Speakers: 🟢 Chair: @zsoltdarvas.bsky.social, Bruegel 🔴 Nick Hill, Moody's 🟠 Dorothée Rouzet, French Treasury 🟡 Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School; Bruegel 🔗Register: buff.ly/n4PZwj9 #BAM26 #EconSky

Sharing my latest article for @bruegel.org First Glance Series: "China’s Arctic Silk Road is now a reality". While China flexes its economic muscle in partnership with Russia, the United States struggles to realise its own Arctic shipping options. www.bruegel.org/first-glance...

China’s Arctic Silk Road is now a reality

While China flexes its economic muscle in partnership with Russia, the United States struggles to realise its own Arctic shipping options

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📈 Did the 2022 energy inflation surge dent European Central Bank and Fed credibility? Evidence across horizons 📑 By Leonardo Cadamuro and @francz.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/L0RpdRs #EconSky

Did the 2022 energy inflation surge dent European Central Bank and Fed credibility? Evidence across horizons

Inflation expectations show that the ECB and Fed stayed credible after the 2022 energy shock, despite euro-area short-term weakness and US drift

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www.bruegel.org/working-pape... Leonardo Cadamuro and I document the threat to the ECB's and FED's credibility after the inflation surge caused by Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Did the 2022 energy inflation surge dent European Central Bank and Fed credibility? Evidence across horizons

Inflation expectations show that the ECB and Fed stayed credible after the 2022 energy shock, despite euro-area short-term weakness and US drift

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💶 What role can tax systems play in bolstering European competitiveness? 🗓️ 2 Sept | 10:30-11:30 Speakers: 🪑 Pascal Saint-Amans, Bruegel 🎤 Rocío Bermúdez Becerra, Repsol 🎤 Fabrizia Lapecorella @oecd-ocde.bsky.social 🎤 Gerassimos Thomas @ec.europa.eu 🔗 Register buff.ly/8EP8mpd #BAM2026 #EconSky

🧠 Reimagining enlargement policy: the outlook to 2030 📆 2 September | 14:00-15:00 🗣️ Our speakers: Marek Dabrowski, nina-vujanovic.bsky.social, Sanja Madzarevic-Sujster & Wolf Heinrich Reuter oenb.at. This seminar is technical in nature & aimed at a specialist audience. buff.ly/8EP8mpd #BAM26

🧊 China’s Arctic Silk Road is now a reality 🛳️ While China flexes its economic muscle in partnership with Russia, the United States struggles to realise its own Arctic shipping options 📑 Read the First Glance by @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social 🔗 Click the link buff.ly/Pokdy7w

China’s Arctic Silk Road is now a reality

While China flexes its economic muscle in partnership with Russia, the United States struggles to realise its own Arctic shipping options

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📗 Mapping Europe’s clean energy and industrial transformation 📅 2 September | 10:30–11:30 CEST 🗣️ Meet our speakers: @tagliapietra.bsky.social, Laura Cozzi @iea.org, Céline Gauer @ec.europa.eu & @bmcwilliams.bsky.social 🔗 Register now: buff.ly/cyVFQ4t #BAM26 #EconSky

💰️Billionaires? In this economy? 🔀How has great wealth transformed society and economic policy in the US and Europe? 🗣️@daviddejong.bsky.social (author, 'Nazi Billionaires') in conversation with host @rebeccawire.bsky.social and Karel Lannoo (@ceps.eu) 🔗Listen to the full episode: buff.ly/bG55jWJ