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Sustainability disclosure: red tape or strategic tool for the future of business?

Is sustainability disclosure a strategic tool that helps investors, consumers, and civil society assess companies, as emphasized during the approval of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), or a bureaucratic burden to be streamline...

Aguzzoni, Luca

Luca Aguzzoni

Economist with a specialization in competition policy and extensive work experience in public policy, antitrust enforcement, antitrust compliance, ex-post evaluation, and technical assistance. Currently serving as Head of Sector in DG Connect and enforcing the Digital Market Act. He joined the European Commission in 2014 and worked at the Chief Economist Team of DG COMP and at the Recovery and Resilience task force.

Can We Make Digital Platforms’ Algorithms Less Harmful?

How can the EU effectively manage the influence of Big Tech platforms while fostering European digital platforms that better serve societal interests? A policy proposal for a voluntary certification for algorithms and business practices

A Crisis of Confidence in the Dollar Threatens Global Financial Stability

A rise in US Treasury yields would immediately feed through into other countries’ borrowing costs, tightening global financial conditions. A commentary by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

The Moment of Truth for Trump’s Protectionist Policies Is Yet to Come

April’s US inflation data will offer the first glimpse of the real impact of the global trade war that the US administration launched on the “Liberation Day”. A commentary by Ignazio Angeloni

Beyond Breakups: Building Smarter Rules to Tackle Big Tech Power

The real challenge is not the size of successful tech firms per se, but how their scale is leveraged — whether to support vibrant ecosystems or to entrench monopolistic control. A commentary by Francesco Decarolis.

Tesauro Silvia

Silvia Tesauro

Why Trump Cannot Win Against the Federal Reserve

Replacing the Chair is not enough to change monetary policy, as Trump would like — namely, to lower interest rates to boost economic growth. A commentary by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

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)

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 rulemakin...