EU fiscal rules are meant to keep public finances on a sustainable path. This paper presents a new database that tracks … compliance abstracts from the many exceptions and elements of discretion allowed by the letter and the spirit of EU law. It … average - across countries, years and rules - budgetary policies of the EU member states are compliant in just over half of …

-financial firms in the EU and the US, this article documents the trend towards twin digital and green investment in the corporate … their investments post-COVID-19. Comparing EU and US firms, the pandemic did not help to bridge the digital gap between the … EU and the US, with European firms more likely to be stuck on the wrong side of the digitalisation divide. Still, they …

This paper investigates determinants of convergence in GDP per capita in the euro area and the EU between 1995 and 2021 …-driven persistent divergence in growth. Regression results provide further evidence of convergence in the euro area and the EU over the …

sharp focus. This has also highlighted another dependency - that on raw materials that are critical for the EU's transition …