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Silvia C
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Rome's child, Irish macroeconomist, European citizen, senior economist at ESM. I believe in Totti. Share!=endorsement, all views personal.
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davidcarretta.bsky.social
La Matinale Européenne is testing its English edition.

Here a new pilot episode by @cspillmann.bsky.social: “Ukraine: The Budapest Trap”.

With @grimmse.bsky.social. Any suggestion is welcome👇

europemorningpost.substack.com/p/ukraine-th...
Ukraine: The Budapest Trap
Good morning!
europemorningpost.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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davidcarretta.bsky.social
The first pilot of the Europe Morning Post is online.

“Copenhagen: Cacophony at the Summit”.

Let me know what you think. 👇

europemorningpost.substack.com/p/copenhagen...
Copenhagen: Cacophony at the Summit
This is a shortened version of La Matinale Européenne translated and edited into English using artificial intelligence tools.
europemorningpost.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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voxeu.org
A Ifrim, R Kollmann, P Pfeiffer, M Ratto, & W Roeger show productivity growth differentials relative to the rest of the world are a key driver of Europe’s external surplus. Structural trade shifts have offset appreciation pressures from the productivity growth gap.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
Graph of GDP per capita growth rates in the euro area vs rest of the world. The euro area faces persistently weak productivity growth alongside a sustained trade surplus and a trendless real exchange rate. This column shows that persistent productivity growth differentials relative to the rest of the world are a key driver of Europe’s external surplus. Structural trade shifts, such as declining home bias and falling import prices, have offset the appreciation pressures from the productivity growth gap. Weak domestic investment is partly driven by global forces, highlighting the limits of purely demand-based explanations and associated policy prescriptions.
September 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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lucasguttenberg.bsky.social
It seems that the Commission will indeed propose one big fund to cover all existing structural funds and the CAP and to organise the payout from this fund via a single national plan That would mean a huge departure from how the EU budget and the MFF negotiations have worked so far.

Here is why:
July 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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europarl.europa.eu
The European Commission is expected to unveil its proposal for the EU's next long-term budget on Wednesday 16 July.

Today, lead MEPs are holding a press conference on Parliament's priorities ahead of the proposal tomorrow.

Follow live from 9.30 CET ↓
Press conference by Siegfried MUREŞAN (EPP, RO) and Carla TAVARES (S&D, PT), co-rapporteurs on Parliament's priorities on MFF ahead of Commission proposal - Multimedia Centre
The multimedia platform of the European Parliament is the official public available repository of the media production of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, managed by the Directorate-General...
europa.eu
July 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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davidcarretta.bsky.social
Il Mattinale Europeo è online.

L’analisi del giorno: “La Danimarca, pro-europea per necessità geopolitica”.

Con @CSpillmann 👇

davidcarretta.substack.com/p/la-danimar...
La Danimarca, pro-europea per necessità geopolitica
Buongiorno!
davidcarretta.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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politicaperjedi.bsky.social
Già fa caldo e c'è il cambiamento climatico, in più ci si mettono anche i titolisti.
July 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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smerler.bsky.social
The international monetary system is changing before our eyes. Germany and Italy pressed to bring gold home from US; a survey of more than 70 global central banks showed more were thinking of storing their gold domestically amid concerns about ability to access it.

www.ft.com/content/e393...
Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245bn of gold home from US
Trump’s attacks on the Fed and growing geopolitical risks reignite public debate about repatriating bullion
www.ft.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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peark.es
If you’re interested in applied macroeconomics, two A+ podcasts to stay on top of are JP Morgan’s Global Data Pod and GlobalData TS Lombard: Perkins vs Breamish (featuring Bluesky’s own @darioperkins.bsky.social). Both have quite adversarial pairings of colleagues batting around forecasts/data.
June 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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katie0martin.ft.com
"The doorbell rang at a time of day when I don't like to open"

Can relate
May 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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davidcarretta.bsky.social
Il Mattinale Europeo è online.

L’analisi del giorno di @cspillmann.bsky.social : « Dire “no” a Trump sull'Ucraina: l'UE mette la sua sovranità alla prova »

Abbonatevi! 👇

davidcarretta.substack.com/p/dire-no-a-...
Dire “no” a Trump sull'Ucraina: l'UE mette la sua sovranità alla prova
Buongiorno!
davidcarretta.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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samuelmarclowe.bsky.social
Tariff de minimis dominoes continues. EU, US, now UK’s under scrutiny.

www.gov.uk/government/n...
Chancellor unveils plans to maintain level playing field for British business
British businesses will be supported to trade freely as the Chancellor chooses to act on practices that undercut fair trade, such as the dumping of cheap goods into the UK.
www.gov.uk
April 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Happy Andor Release Day!
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 18
New(ish), from me: Andor returns on April 22. The first season detailed how bureaucracies in a totalitarian regime function, what is the toll of living under such regimes, and what causes people to rebel. Those themes feel more salient than ever. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-return...
The Return of Andor
A show about living under a totalitarian regime hits different now
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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sandertordoir.bsky.social
When Martin Wolf and Brad Setser join up to make charts you'd better pay attention.

More of China's tiny trade surplus will be rerouted to European markets as it bounces of the US tariff wall. And the urgency for the EU to respond with trade defence and its own industrial policy will grow.
April 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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phastidio.net
Attendendo le elezioni del 28 aprile, il premier canadese Mark Carney tenta di abbattere le barriere commerciali interne, i regimi autorizzativi al movimento interprovinciale di cose e persone. Le guerre commerciali si combattono meglio se si è coerenti a casa propria.
markcarney.ca/one-canadian...
March 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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nnedi.bsky.social
An editor friend of mine posted about this little Edward Gorey book. The title and his sneakers captured my interest.

I bought it and read it last night. Gloriously weird, *exactly* what I needed. I want a t-shirt with that little guy on it, 😁.
The Doubtful Guest by Edward Gorey
March 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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dynarski.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A week of whiplash In the first hours of his presidency, Trump signed a barrage of executive orders, which are decrees that direct the US government's actions but that cannot change existing laws. The orders aimed to reshape US policy on climate science, public health, the federal workforce and more. A week later, the Trump administration issued a memo freezing all federal grants. That 28 January memo was temporarily blocked by a federal judge minutes before it would have taken effect, and the White House then rescinded it. But White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on the social-media platform X that Trump's executive orders on federal funding would "remain in full force". In response, the NSF froze its funds and cancelled a week's worth of grant reviews, which are used to determine which projects are funded. To more permanently halt the funding freeze, 22 states and the District of Columbia sued the federal government and its agencies. Two federal judges have since temporarily blocked the funding freeze, hinting that it might be an overreach that lacks proper authority. Inside grant review The NSF has not publicly shared details of how it is continuing to examine research grants and flag those in violation of Trump's orders, but NSF employees shared documents with Nature clarifying the process. Around 10,000 research grants have been flagged for review and distributed to various programme directors. Grants in one area of science are being distributed to directors in a separate area of science. For instance, the geosciences division is examining grants from the division of social, behavioural and economic sciences. The grants are being reviewed independently by two staff members instructed to indicate any potential violations of Trump's orders. They will submit their reviews in a spreadsheet by 5 p.m. today. Nature has seen the criteria for flagging grants, which call for programme officers to look for "broadening participation" language, foreign assistance, climate science, domestic energy, and "discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI". "To see 'women' and 'woman' and 'people of colour' showing up on a spreadsheet over and over and over and over - that was a gut punch," says one NSF employee. Action for grants can include cancelling, archiving or modifying them, with a deadline of 7 February. A team of five to eight NSF staff members will then review any revised grants, which will go to the Office of the Director for approval. "We already reviewed all of these," says one NSF employee, referring to the fact that grant proposals go through extensive vetting before being funded. "It's really frightening and ridiculous." Another shares those concerns but says that faced with Trump's orders, "NSF is doing an honest job, as painful as it can be."
February 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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ceschi.bsky.social
The ECB recently joined BlueSky, with @ecb.europa.eu 🇪🇺
Go follow it for the latest publications and information from the euro area!
January 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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jmorenocruz.bsky.social
A recent paper by Eoin McGuirk and @nathannunn.bsky.social highlights how agricultural development projects can backfire in traditionally pastoral areas of Africa, fueling conflict instead of fostering development.

#EconSky

www.nber.org/papers/w33191
December 10, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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davidcarretta.bsky.social
🚨 Deal on the EU-Mercosur Agreement

The free trade agreement "is not only economic opportunities, but a political necessity," says Ursula von der Leyen.

“This agreement is a winning for Europe”.
December 6, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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kevcunningham.bsky.social
Only really getting to look at the data from our polling day poll now. Really interesting to see how the most important issue shifted towards the economy both during the campaign and then in particular in the final week.
December 4, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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November 29, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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michelecrepaz.bsky.social
Very happy to have contributed to this excellent strategy guidance note by Raj Chari for the #UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration

#Lobbying registers and #transparency can be now treated as instruments to address SDGs

publicadministration.desa.un.org/sites/defaul...
publicadministration.desa.un.org
November 29, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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kevinhorourke.bsky.social
I have a new paper with @yotoyotov.bsky.social and co-authors on Canadian interwar trade policy. It is open access for 50 days, and is available here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me
November 27, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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stefanmueller.bsky.social
A lot of discussion about incumbency effects at the moment.

The plot below maps the trend since 1937. In Irish general elections, around 8 in 10 TDs who choose to stand again are re-elected. This re-election rate ranks among the highest in the world.

www.rte.ie/news/electio...
#GE24
1/2
November 21, 2024 at 10:07 AM