United States, especially, do not separate economic interests from geopolitical interests in the same way the EU does. They … considers how the EU and its member states can better protect European economic sovereignty in a range of areas, including state … area, we recommend ways to improve the EU’s capacity to wield economic power, without advocating increased protectionism or …

discrepancies between EU countries: countries with the same levels of house-price overvaluation have adopted very different … the next recession or reducing its impact, we argue that EU policymakers need to be better prepared to use discretionary …

We study whether and to what extent EU countries implement recommendations on macroeconomic imbalances given by the EU … also study how EU recommendations on addressing macroeconomic imbalances compare to recommendations given by the … International Monetary Fund. Overall implementation of recommendations by EU countries has worsened in the last few years, in …

With a unique data set summarizing the quality of rules-based fiscal governance in EU member states, we show that …