Coronavirus

The authors thank Maria Demertzis and Nicolas Véron for their comments. In the 2010s, the economic situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) deteriorated as a result of lower oil and other commodity prices, a new round of domestic politica...

The uncertainty and disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020 sent organizations rushing to access liquidity. As Refinitiv data shows, this resulted in an unprecedented transfer of capital between savers and borrowers. Both trends drove global...

Sequels – occasionally they’re better (The Godfather Part II), but most of the time they’re worse. Markets recovered strongly. This became known as the Taper Tantrum. The level of support provided by governments and central banks since the pandemic s...

Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice-President and I are very pleased to welcome you to our press conference. We will now report on the outcome of today's meeting of the Governing Council, which was also attended by the Commission Executive Vice-President,...

One year since the pandemic began, widespread vaccination has finally started. It would be a mistake however to say the end is in sight. Senior fellows Uri Dadush and J. Scott Marcus join Bruegel director Guntram Wolff to talk COVID-19 vaccine strate...

The sudden reappearance of national borders within the European Union because of travel restrictions, self-quarantine and test requirements – all differing depending on the country – has underlined the importance of a right that Europeans sometimes t...