“The EU must ensure that all rules applied to domestic players are also applied to foreign players acting in its market,” said Simone Tagliapietra, a senior researcher at the Bruegel think tank. “Its all about level playing field, not about trade wars.”

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“Europe is about to face a sort of impossible triangle,” said Tagliapietra. “On the one hand, we want to accelerate the green transition and be competitive, on the other hand, we want to ramp up defense. And also being fiscally conservative.”
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🗓️On April 30, we will launch our new Cambridge University Press book 'The macroeconomics of decarbonisation' at Bruegel. Here the link to register for being part of this multifaceted (and hopefully fascinating!) conversation - with great discussants: bruegel.org/event/macroeco…

'We're in a world where size matters,' Bruegel's Simone Tagliapietra said. 'The greater the single market, the more our companies achieve economies of scale to be able to compete with other economies of the world.'

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If the conflict escalates further, Iran has the capability to attack oil tankers passing through the strait of Hormuz, Simone Tagliapietra told CNN. A worst-case scenario would entail a total blockade of the strait by Tehran, though the likelihood is low. cnn.com/2024/04/15/ene…

📈Who drives the global electric cars revolution? China of course, with 14 million EVs on the road, compared to 5.7m in🇪🇺 and 3m in🇺🇸 - and it is accelerating fast. This and many other green transition facts in our Bruegel European Clean Tech Tracker: bruegel.org/dataset/europe…

Member states #NECP 's provide a somewhat standardised glimpse into national energy policy discourses. Instead of comparing numbers, Ben McWilliams & I looked into word frequencies. A few observations:

1) 'hydrogen' has seen the strongest rise in rel. mentions 2019->2023

How is Europe doing in clean tech manufacturing?🏭🔋More than 400 factories are established in the continent, with Germany being the key hub in this space. This and many other green transition facts in our
Bruegel European Clean Tech Tracker: bruegel.org/dataset/europe…