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The point is: the world is changing faster than our policies. Our institutions must transform the ways they think, formulate policies, and make decisions to keep pace with a rapidly changing world. And this is what I want to touch on briefly today.
In October 2025, DG ECFIN’s flash estimate of the consumer confidence indicator increased for the second month in a row, by 0.8 percentage points (pps) in the EU and 0.7 pps in the euro area. Scoring at -13.5 (EU) and -14.2 (euro area) points, consumer confidence moved closer to its long-term avera
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This paper looks into existing and potential links between green budgeting and other green policy tools, and challenges with ensuring such links.
The paper provides an overview of the distributional dimension of the EU’s Fit for 55 climate and energy policy package, presents new insights from ECFIN economic modelling on the economic impacts of addressing distributional concerns and derives lessons for Member State redistributive policies.