Heather Grabbe
@heathergrabbe.bsky.social
Political economy of climate and nature at Bruegel. Visiting Professor at University College London. Brussels geek.
☀️ Bruegel's Senior Fellow @heathergrabbe.bsky.social speaks about the heatwave that has engulfed Europe & how climate-related disasters are affecting the public budgets of a number of European Union countries. 📚️ Read 'Planning for the rising fiscal costs of climate disasters' 🔗 buff.ly/gAgKpx6
I am big fan of @bruegel.org papers. Accurate, sound, well explained… In this one, making clear why investing in climate action and preparedness & resilience is so important. Txs @heathergrabbe.bsky.social and @gzachmann.bsky.social.
Heather Grabbe@heathergrabbe.bsky.social · 2mo agoGreat summary of our new paper with @gzachmanm below.
Great summary of our new paper with @gzachmanm below.
Georg Zachmann@gzachmann.bsky.social · 2mo agoClimate impacts will become a structural macro-fiscal problem. With low private insurance, EU governments are sleepwalking into becoming disaster insurers of last resort. Our @bruegel.org Policy Brief on mitigating rising fiscal costs of climate disasters. 🔗 www.bruegel.org/policy-brief... 🧵1/10
This week’s heatwave shows how temperatures and rainfall patterns that used to be considered extremes are becoming the norm. But climate disasters don't have to become fiscal crises if EU countries plan better for adaptation investments and risk-sharing: see www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...
Planning for the rising fiscal costs of climate disasters
Low insurance coverage is turning EU governments into disaster insurers of last resort, strengthening the case for prevention and adaptation finance
bruegel.org
Bruegel@bruegel.org · 2mo ago📊 Chart of the week: Annual EU direct economic losses from extreme weather and climate events 📑 By @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social, @marie-lappe.bsky.social, @iremonas.bsky.social, Massimo Tavoni and @gzachmann.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/QN0cs5M #EconSky
⛈️ What action can be taken at the national and European levels to strengthen prevention and adaptation finance? 📑 By @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social, @marie-lappe.bsky.social, @iremonas.bsky.social, Massimo Tavoni and @gzachmann.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/QN0cs5M #EconSky
Planning for the rising fiscal costs of climate disasters
Low insurance coverage is turning EU governments into disaster insurers of last resort, strengthening the case for prevention and adaptation finance
buff.ly
📊 Chart of the week: Annual EU direct economic losses from extreme weather and climate events 📑 By @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social, @marie-lappe.bsky.social, @iremonas.bsky.social, Massimo Tavoni and @gzachmann.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/QN0cs5M #EconSky
Encouraging words from @RachelReeves on ambitions for UK-EU: “Economic gravity is reality … we are up for doing deals with India, US and other countries but half our trade is with the EU” … We are up for deeper alignment for more integration with the EU … including financial services.” We agree:
The EU-UK reset: a first, big step in the right direction
The most important outcome of the EU-UK Summit might be that it re-establishes the habit of working together
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Bruegel@bruegel.org · 6mo ago📣 JUST ANNOUNCED 🗣️ UK Chancellor Rt Hon Rachel Reeves will participate in a fireside chat with Bruegel Director @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social, closing Bruegel's 20th anniversary event today in London. Organised with @lse-ei.bsky.social. 🔴 WATCH LIVE 🔗 Info and registration:
📣 JUST ANNOUNCED 🗣️ UK Chancellor Rt Hon Rachel Reeves will participate in a fireside chat with Bruegel Director @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social, closing Bruegel's 20th anniversary event today in London. Organised with @lse-ei.bsky.social. 🔴 WATCH LIVE 🔗 Info and registration:
Security in Europe: how will it affect growth and competitiveness?
Bruegel’s 20th anniversary event in London, jointly organised with the LSE European Institute
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🌿Nature as equity ❓️How can public money and financial markets work together to protect the environment? 🎙️ In this episode of The Sound of Economics, @rebeccawire.bsky.social sits down with Bruegel’s @heathergrabbe.bsky.social & @estellecantillon.bsky.social 🔗 Listen now: buff.ly/c3uwiEb
Nature as equity
How can public money and financial markets work together to protect the environment?
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This piece by @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social is very good and well worth your time. Building on the brilliant work by Ruth Wodak and with important insights from @timbale.bsky.social
The rise of vice-signalling: how hatred poisoned politics
Over the last 10 years, the terms of political debate have changed completely – and week by week they seem to get worse
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The EU’s agendas for economic security, strategic autonomy and competitiveness would benefit from stronger circularity, most notably through eco-design, improved recovery of materials for secondary use and innovation, writes @heathergrabbe.bsky.social. Read here www.intereconomics.eu/contents/yea...
Resource Productivity: Europe’s Overlooked Route to Economic Security
Intereconomics is an academic journal that publishes articles by experts on current economic and social policy issues affecting Europe.
intereconomics.eu
⚠️ #Venezuela: the upending of values and another warning to Europe 🌎 If the events of this weekend were a warning, will Europe heed it? 🗨️ Read the First Glance by @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social: buff.ly/1pXFxpv #EconSky
Venezuela: the upending of values and another warning to Europe
Trump's brazen attack on Venezuela presents challenges for China – and opportunities
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▶️ Live now! Investment in enlargement: a conversation with Odile Renaud-Basso ⏱️ 13:00-14:00 CET A fireside chat with @heathergrabbe.bsky.social and @odilerenaudbasso.bsky.social on investment, reform, support for Ukraine and candidate countries for EU enlargement 🎥
Investment in enlargement: a conversation with Odile Renaud-Basso
How can investment, reform, and support for Ukraine and other EU candidate countries shape the future of EU enlargement?
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@heathergrabbe.bsky.social @bruegel.org noted vdL excelled at crisis response in her 1st term, (largely) maintaining unity on 🇺🇦. But it’s unclear this will last for broader strategy on security or budget. Her leadership style & the Commission’s structure may not suit long-term policymaking.
🎙️ Climate, data and complacency 🌍 @rebeccawire.bsky.social discusses the cost of climate change with @heathergrabbe.bsky.social & @guntramwolff.bsky.social, highlighting the ways in which it will affect insurance, housing and GDP. #EconSky 👂 Listen to the podcast:
Climate, data and complacency
Why economists need to take the costs of climate change more seriously
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Our third panel at #TheBodrumRT with @edamorg.bsky.social looked at “The green transition with a perspective from the Global South” with Ignacio García Bercero @bruegel.org, @dorameredith.bsky.social, @mohancraja.bsky.social and Dinna Prapto Raharja, chaired by @heathergrabbe.bsky.social
🌍 Climate, data and complacency: Why economists need to take the costs of climate change more seriously @heathergrabbe.bsky.social & @guntramwolff.bsky.social in conversation w/ @rebeccawire.bsky.social 🎙️ Listen to the podcast: buff.ly/MbfbRul
🇪🇺 Today, the EU Enlargement Summit convenes in Brussels 🇪🇺 To dissect the details of it all, join @anandmenon.bsky.social, @sebastienmaillard.bsky.social, @heathergrabbe.bsky.social & @jobmaynooth.bsky.social 💻 Online 📆 Tues 18 Nov, 1pm GMT ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
UKICE Lunch Hour: The prospects for EU enlargement - UK in a changing Europe
On 4 November, the EU is set to present its 2025 enlargement package. Join our expert panel as they discuss the package and the prospects for EU enlargement.
ukandeu.ac.uk
🔴 LIVE NOW: The 21st century economic consensus: rethinking policy and strategy ⌚ 11:15-12:30 CET How can Europe renew its economic and political vision in a fragmented global order? w/ @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, Sara Hagemann, Andrés Velasco & @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social 🎥 buff.ly/QIQggd5
❓A bigger Single Market before enlargement: how to integrate the Western Balkans ahead of accession 🗓️3 December 2025 13:00-14:00 W/ @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, Gert Jan Koopman, Slavo Radošević & Nina Vujanović Funded by the Open Society Foundations-Western Balkans 🔗Sign up: buff.ly/M8PgcKl
🌐 The 21st century #economic consensus: rethinking policy and strategy 🔗 buff.ly/QIQggd5 🎤 w/ @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, Sara Hagemann, Andrés Velasco & @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social
The 21st century economic consensus: rethinking policy and strategy
How can Europe renew its economic and political vision in a fragmented global order?
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🤔 Curious about the prospects for EU enlargement? Join Anand Menon, @sebastienmaillard.bsky.social, Heather Grabbe & Prof John O Brennan as they discuss the 2025 enlargment package 💻 Online 📆 Tues 18 Nov, 1pm GMT https://ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice-lunch-hour-the-prospects-for-eu-enlargement/
UKICE Lunch Hour: The prospects for EU enlargement - UK in a changing Europe
On 4 November, the EU is set to present its 2025 enlargement package. Join our expert panel as they discuss the package and the prospects for EU enlargement.
ukandeu.ac.uk
❓A bigger Single Market before enlargement: how to integrate the Western Balkans ahead of accession 🗓️3 December 2025 13:00-14:00 W/ @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, Gert Jan Koopman, Slavo Radošević & Nina Vujanović Funded by the Open Society Foundations-Western Balkans 🔗Sign up: buff.ly/M8PgcKl
🌳 The European Parliament votes for a second delay to the EU Deforestation Regulation ⚠️ But what are the costs to the EU of dragging its feet on #deforestation? 💡 Read @heathergrabbe.bsky.social 's piece for a breakdown: 🔗 www.bruegel.org/first-glance... #EconSky
➕ A bigger Single Market before enlargement: how to integrate the Western Balkans ahead of accession W/ @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, Slavo Radošević, Valentina Superti & Nina Vujanović 🔗 buff.ly/eslh1cP
A bigger Single Market before enlargement: how to integrate the Western Balkans ahead of accession
Can the region capitalise on the momentum to overcome its region-specific hurdles?
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On both right and left, there's anger about the recent assessments of Russia's threat to the UK and the rest of Europe, and about the need for us to prepare to meet it. There's a lot I could say here (as my students know), but most of it boils down to two things. 🧵
Thanks to @api-ipa.bsky.social & @unbrussels.bsky.social for the opportunity to brief journalists today on the pressing topic of climate migration. Our Susanne Melde joined @heathergrabbe.bsky.social to talk about the importance of a solution-focused approach to preparedness, adaptation & resilience
👥 And a Panel debate “Investing in Europe’s climate transition – do we have what it takes?” with William Todts #T&E; @heathergrabbe.bsky.social @bruegel.bsky.social; Giles Dickson @windeurope.bsky.social and Bertrand Magné @eib.org 👇 More informations about the event www.i4ce.org/en/evenement...
Investing in Europe’s climate transition - I4CE
Launch of the State of the Climate Investment Report (second edition). Accelerating the climate transition is a central part of securing both the EU’s strategic autonomy and meeting the mid-to-long-te...
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🔬 ‘Project Einstein’: research excellence for Europe and the world @heathergrabbe.bsky.social and Daniel Gros add their voices to the call for European institutions to coordinate on attracting top talent from the US. 💭 Time for Project Einstein? 🔗 First Glance here: buff.ly/n8swPwV #EconSky
‘Project Einstein’: research excellence for Europe and the world
The European Union has the money to attract researchers under threat in the US and should coordinate a scheme to deploy it
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WATCH LIVE: "Green, digital and resilient growth" with @suomenpankki.fi with @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social, @ollirehn.suomenpankki.fi, Leena Mörttinen, @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social, @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, @kristiraik.bsky.social, @iikkakorhonen.bsky.social ➡️ www.bruegel.org/event/green-...
