Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

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Jacob Funk Kirkegaard is a Senior fellow at Bruegel and a Non-resident Senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). From 2020 to August 2024, he was a senior fellow with the Brussels office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). From 2013 until 2020, he was a senior fellow at PIIE, based in Washington, DC.  He has also worked with the Danish Ministry of Defence, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial sector. 


 

Policy Brief n.41 - Increasing European Productivity, Resiliency, and Defence Production (and How to Pay for It)
2025

To restart growth, the EU needs to focus on productivity and innovation. This does not require hundreds of billions of euros in new expenditure, but rather a sharp focus on the efficiency of existing budgets coupled with innovation-friendly rulemaking. A Policy Brief by Daniel Gros, and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard