Economics
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A report entitled The ECB’s bid to strengthen the euro’s global role by Spyros Andreopoulos and Sander Tordoir, former European Central Bank employees, was published on the website of the Centre for European Reform on 20 February 2026.
The ECB's bid to strengthen the euro's global role
The website of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany) has posted an article Europe in the Age of Geoeconomics by Tim Peter.
The article is a critique of the Buy European program designed to protect the European market amid global trade wars.
Europe in the Age of Geoeconomics
On 19 February 2026, a report entitled The Mercosur deal tests Europe’s geoeconomic ambition by Anton Spisak, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, was published on the Centre’s website. The report deals with the issues that arose in the ratification of the free trade agreement with MERCOSUR and highlighted the structural deficiencies in the EU’s trade agreement policy.
The Mercosur deal tests Europe’s geoeconomic ambition
On 11 February, an article entitled Europe is chasing the wrong fix for its growth crisis was published on the Politico online newspaper’s website – dedicated to the idea of overcoming the EU’s economic lag by deepening its federalization and building it into the global economy.
Europe is chasing the wrong fix for its growth crisis
On January 29, the Breugel (Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory) think tank published on their web site a policy brief entitled “Better regulation in the European Union needs a fresh start”, by Anne Bucher and Elizabeth Golberg.
Better Regulation in the European Union Needs a Fresh Start
The European Union Institute for Security Studies has published on its web site the article “Financial dependence on the US: Europe's underestimated weak spot” by Steven Everts describing current transformation of global finances.
Europe's Underestimated Weak Spot: Financial Dependence on the US
On 3 December 2025, the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs published an article by Daniel S. Hamilton, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and senior non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.
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