One of the issues brought forth by the COVID-19 crisis is the need to track the infection chains in order to stop the disease from spreading. One of the simplest ways this can be done is via a smartphone app. However, this can ...

The Covid-19 crisis put a huge burden on the global economy and could affect the economy more severe than the Great Financial crisis in the end. Governments responded to the shock imposed by Covid-19 by offering liquidity to the...

The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) will be the core of the EU’s new Recovery Instrument to fight the economic fallout of the pandemic. Under the RRF, 310 billion euros in additional EU spending will be allocated by the...

The COVID19 – crisis puts a strain on public households in the EU, not only because of necessary rescue packages, but also due to a drop of tax revenues in the face of an economic downward spiral. A European tax reform to support...

COVID-19 will hit financial institutions with a substantial time lag, but the coming storm will be fierce. The EU banking sector is entering the troubled waters of the Corona crisis with four major vulnerabilities: (1) Market and...

Im täglichen Arbeitskontext spielt Digitalisierung bereits seit längerer Zeit eine große Rolle. Nicht nur die Industrie 4.0, sondern auch der Aspekt der digitalen Arbeitskultur hält immer mehr Einzug in die Unternehmen und macht...

Which impact does demographic aging have on productivity growth and macroeconomic indicators in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and the USA? And which potentials arise from labor-saving technological progress to...

In most of the 137 developing and transformation countries examined by the BTI 2020, COVID-19 will exacerbate the very weaknesses that have marked the negative balance of the last decade: a lack of rule of law, limited political...

The Bertelsmann Stiftung High-Level Reflection Group brings together decisionmakers and experts to provide answers to the EU’s internal and external challenges based on the perspective of European public goods.

While the ongoing pandemic affects all European economies, we show that it is likely to cause much more economic damage in some member states than in others. Early fiscal crisis responses by EU governments do not reflect these...