In case you have missed it, you could use your Friday afternoon (or your whole week-end 😉) to explore our new Bruegel database on inflation inequality in EU countries:

Very interesting presentation by Isabel Schnabel 🇪🇺🇺🇦 on the future of the operational framework and balance-sheet size of the European Central Bank to steer short-term rates, a topic highly relevant now that the ECB has started QT, as I discussed in a recent paper: bruegel.org/report/finding…

Our Russian foreign trade tracker has been updated, and in this update we have added Brazil! The tracker now covers Russia's trade with 37 countries, which together accounted for around 77% of both Russia's imports and exports in 2019. Check it out here: bruegel.org/dataset/russia…

Our new paper, written with Conor McCaffrey and @lennardwelslau, for the BUDG Committee Press on "The rising cost of European Union borrowing and what to do about it" has just been published by Bruegel: bruegel.org/policy-brief/r…

🆕In this policy brief, Gregory Claeys, Conor McCaffrey and @lennardwelslau explore the rising cost of European Union borrowing and what should be done about it They examine how interest rates on the EU debt have risen substantially since 2022 and what the main drivers and

In the past few months, there have been reports of sanction circumvention, in particular through EAEU countries (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia). Aside from Belarus, also under sanctions, Kazakhstan is Russia's largest trading partner amongst these. 1/11

The world has changed. Unfettered globalisation and the hope of systemic convergence are gone. Economic security is the new buzzword. What does it mean for Europe? My new Bruegel CEPR report with B. Weder di Mauro and Jeromin Zettelmeyer cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…