Europe faces a well-known productivity malaise, with a large and widening aggregate productivity gap relative to the U.S. In this paper, we provide a novel diagnosis of the firm-level roots of ...

The European Central Bank expects headwinds to persist this year, but still sees the conditions for a recovery in place. It ...

Close to 100,000 protesters have thronged the center of Brussels while airports and public transport were largely paralyzed ...

Luxembourg’s GDP per capita in PPS was 237, Eurostat said, 2.37 times more than the EU average in 2023. That of Ireland’s ...

Instead, the EU should become the coordinator of multiple unions, each formed by the member states themselves around specific ...

With the United States in retreat under the banner of “America First,” outgoing Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo says ...

The impulse our artists have to make art for art’s sake creates a very generous environment,” gallerist Borrego Curro told Observer during ART WKND GDL.

Despite major advances in artificial intelligence (AI) research for healthcare, the deployment and adoption of AI technologies remain limited in clinical practice. This paper describes the FUTURE-AI ...

A list of the best cities in the United States, based on a number of economic factors ... the resilience of their populations." A map shows the best-performing U.S. cities and metropolitan ...

With a third round of hostage and prisoner exchanges completed and signs that the Israel-Gaza ceasefire is still holding, reviving talks on the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC ...

The gap is staggering. In 2024, the US economy grew by 2.8%, a figure more than three times higher than that recorded in the eurozone (0.7%) and the European Union (0.8%), according to official ...