Gergő Motyovszki is a PhD candidate in economics at the European University Institute in Florence. His research is about how household heterogeneity affects monetary and fiscal policies in open ...

The era of unbridled hyperglobalisation, characterised by a relaxed attitude towards dependencies on other countries’ resources, productive capacities, and technological competencies, has ended.

In line with the Paris Agreement, the European Union (EU) aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. This objective necessitates profound shifts in energy production, technological development, and ...

The transition from communism brought new freedoms, increased mobility, a wider array of consumer goods, and economic growth to most countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) following their ...

The Swedish Economic Crime Authority recently reported that a number of healthcare centres, vaccination services, schools, pre-schools and pharmacies have been taken over by organised crime. It was a ...

President Trump’s reshaping of the United States’ global role has made it undeniably clear that European societies must strengthen their collective defences to deter potential aggressors. While the ...

The recent Draghi report on European Union competitiveness highlights the structural weaknesses that have contributed to the bloc’s relatively low economic growth and the urgent need for reform. A ...

In a remarkable catalogue of horrors for The New York Times, journalist Ben Casselman details the “central tenets” of mainstream economics that have fallen out of political favour: free trade, open ...

Fiscal policies in Eurozone countries have long been shaped by the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). This framework was conceived as a means to enforce orthodox fiscal rules designed to steer member ...

Something is missing in the debate about generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and creative workers losing their jobs. The current conversation reduces creative activity to content production: ...

Two weeks after the federal elections in Austria, it is still unclear which parties will form the next government. The far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), led by Herbert Kickl, clearly won the elections ...

The European Parliament elections last month provided a platform for the far right and its anti-democratic agenda. Wherever the far right gets into power, workers’ fundamental rights and their unions ...