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💡Regime0: Kickstarting growth with an EU wide startup incorporation regime
🗓️10 December 2025 11:30-12:30

How to attract entrepreneurs to invest in Europe? W/ Reinhilde Veugelers, @proffionasm.bsky.social & Antonio García del Riego.

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November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🌳 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:
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#EconSky
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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🔨 Whack-a-mole - EU imports of Chinese hybrid EVs.

In 2024, the EU passed import tariffs on the import of Chinese electric vehicles. This covered pure battery cars but not plug-in hybrids.

📈 In recent months, PHEV imports from China are growing.

european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🔍 Shifting priorities, slow progress: an analysis of EU tax recommendations

➡️ With taxation largely a domestic competence, have the Commission's efforts to coordinate EU tax policy been effective?

🖊️ @roeldom.bsky.social, Costanza Greppi Maturana and Pascal Saint-Amans
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#EconSky
Shifting priorities, slow progress: an analysis of EU tax recommendations
EU tax advice has broadened to new objectives, yet uneven implementation highlights the limits of soft coordination
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November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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🚗 Whack-a-mole: growing European imports of Chinese hybrid EVs

💭 End-2024, EU introduced tariffs on the import of battery EVs from China but exempted hybrids. EU imports of these models have surged since then

📊 Explore our European Clean Tech Tracker here: lnkd.in/eUjxjFKC
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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🚗 Fine margins, but the EU has again broken its monthly record for the share of new vehicle registrations that are electric.

29.4% in October 2025 up from 29.1% a month previously.

🇫🇷🇩🇪 strong growth in FR & DE an important driver

european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/technology/e...
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
🔴 LIVE NOW: The changing global and European environment for sustainability-related financial disclosures
🕰️ 14:00-15:00 (CET)

Join @veron.bsky.social & Sue Lloyd of International Sustainability Standards Board on sustainability-related financial disclosures

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The changing global and European environment for sustainability-related financial disclosures
At this invitation-only event Sue Lloyd will discuss sustainability-related financial disclosures in an evironmental context
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November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🎙️ Ukraine talks: peace progress or dead end?

@rebeccawire.bsky.social discusses Ukraine peace talks with @veron.bsky.social & @guntramwolff.bsky.social, and how the EU can manage the high-stakes standoff between Kyiv, Moscow and Washington. #EconSky

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Ukraine talks: peace progress or dead end?
How should the EU manage negotiations with Ukraine, the US and Russia?
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November 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Updated @bruegel.org European gas imports for week 47, 2025.
www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
⚡Europe’s tech dependency: risks and solutions
🗓️10 December 2025 13:00-14:00

Join us at this event where we discuss how Europe can stay technologically independent. W/ @digitalmario.bsky.social, @robin.berjon.com and @alexandrageese.bsky.social

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November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Considering structurally lower natural gas demand (≈ - 25%) storages are looking quite healthy for this time of year.

✔️ The result - TTF gas prices drop below €30 for the first time in a long time

www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🏭 How can carbon credits work better?

@gzachmann.bsky.social in podcast conversation with @rebeccawire.bsky.social & Jos Delbeke on new ideas on reaching climate targets as COP30 gets underway. #EconSky

Listen here: buff.ly/ymQ7ZpI
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🎥 Recording available: EU sustainable growth: what is the right mix of structural, monetary and fiscal instruments?

Bruegel’s conference with the @oenb.at brought together experts to reflect on Europe’s growth agenda one year after the Draghi report.

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👀 Next stop: Warsaw
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🤝 A first step in coalition building to reform the global trading system

A new EU-CPTPP statement could mark the start of renewed cooperation between the blocs.

🌐 But will caution overrule ambition in future talks?

🖊️ By Ignacio Garcia Bercero
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#EconSky
A first step in coalition building to reform the global trading system
Two of the world’s major trading blocs have signalled their willingness to work to repair a system undermined by the US and China
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November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
📊 The changing global and European environment for sustainability-related financial disclosures
🗓️ 26 November 2025 14:00-15:00 (CET)

Join @veron.bsky.social & Sue Lloyd of International Sustainability Standards Board on sustainability-related financial disclosures

🔗 Online only: buff.ly/2D07JJe
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
📊 Chart of the week: Status of capacity mechanisms in the EU

⚡ Can capacity mechanisms be effectively coordinated across Europe?

👀 Read the Policy Brief By Pär Holmberg, @maurerchr.christophmaurer.de, Monika Morawiecka, Fabien Roques and @gzachmann.bsky.social
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November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📈 What will it take to stabilise debt in advanced countries? 🌍

The Working Paper by @zsoltdarvas.bsky.social, @gonhuertas.bsky.social, @lennardwelslau.bsky.social & @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social analyses the prospects for debt stabilisation in the EU, the UK and the US.

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What will it take to stabilise debt in advanced countries?
Debt can be stabilised across advanced economies yet many face sizeable fiscal adjustments and rising vulnerability to market shifts
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November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Digital regulation can be designed to generate value and can distribute that value in accordance with the goals the European Commission intends to pursue. @digitalmario.bsky.social proposes a new framework. #EconSky

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Efficiency and distribution in the European Union’s digital deregulation push
A new framework shows how EU digital reforms must balance efficiency with transparent recognition of distributive consequences
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November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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📎 The case for delaying the application of the EU’s carbon border levy to electricity.

We argue that the inclusion of electricity in CBAM creates more problems than it solves; ways should be found to exempt it

@gzachmann.bsky.social and Rouven Stubbe

@bruegel.org

www.bruegel.org/analysis/cas...
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
💡 The case for delaying the application of the EU’s carbon border levy to electricity

🔌 Will applying CBAM to electricity do more harm than good to Europe's climate goals?

🖊️ @bmcwilliams.bsky.social, Rouven Stubbe and @gzachmann.bsky.social
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#EconSky
The case for delaying the application of the EU’s carbon border levy to electricity
The inclusion of electricity in CBAM creates more problems than it solves; ways should be found to exempt it
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November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🏭 How can carbon credits work better?

🎙️In this episode of The Sound of Economics, host Rebecca Christie sits down with Georg Zachmann and Jos Delbeke to discuss how Europe can use its ambitious climate targets to best catalyse global decarbonisation.

Listen here: www.bruegel.org/podcast/how-...
How can carbon credits work better?
New ideas on reaching climate targets as COP30 gets underway
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November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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📦 Bruegel Clean Tech Tracker update: EU clean tech exports to the US fall

💭 What will the long-term consequences of US tariffs be for European clean tech?

📊 Explore the tracker here: lnkd.in/eUjxjFKC
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🪴 Bruegel at COP30 Brazil
🗓️ 20 November 2025 17:00-18:00 (CET)

Join us at COP30 with @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social, Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis, @tagliapietra.bsky.social, Ottmar Edenhofer, @cwolfram.bsky.social, @estellecantillon.bsky.social, @simonmundy.ft.com and Juliano Assunção

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November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🚆See you in Warsaw!
📅10 December 2025 10:00-12:45 CET

As part of Bruegel’s 20th anniversary celebrations, we are pleased to announce our next event "Can policy survive politics?", jointly organised with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland.

🔗 Info: buff.ly/PekRiZy
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM