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This technical report presents the study carried out within the Action 3 ‘Methodologies for assessing the combined effect of upgrading’ of REEBUILD project, introducing a simplified integrated method for the assessment of the combined seismic and energy retrofit of existing buildings, along with their environmental performance, in a life-cycle perspective by achieving a global assessment result in economic terms. The development of a user-friendly method to assess the potential improvements achieved in a combined renovation project is essential to ease and speed up the knowledge of benefits that different stakeholders e.g. owners, industry, policy makers, etc., can gain by combining seismic safety and energy efficiency retrofit technologies, thus overcoming renovation barriers, such as intervention cost, execution time, inhabitants’ relocation, institutional and administrative issues. A review of the existing methodologies for the seismic and energy retrofit assessment of existing buildings is first carried out, serving as a state-of-the-art for proposing the simplified combined assessment method.

El Banco Central Europeo y la Reserva Federal han adoptado enfoques similares a la hora de endurecer la política monetaria para hacer frente a la elevada inflación. Sin embargo, en comparación con EE.UU., la inflación de la zona euro se ha visto impulsada más por perturbaciones de la oferta y menos por la fuerte demanda.

La industria manufacturera desempeña un papel clave en las transiciones ecológica y digital y es uno de los principales empleadores de la Unión. Este informe examina la rica cartera de proyectos de la UE de apoyo a la fabricación avanzada, principalmente en el marco de las asociaciones Fábricas del Futuro y Made in Europe.

The aim of this paper is to look at possible scenarios of demand for a retail-only euro central bank digital currency and assess their impact on bank’s balance sheets, to explore potential effects on bank’s intermediation capacity and financial stability. The European Central Bank, in the context of the Eurosystem investigative exercise, has tackled this issue by proposing a set of illustrative scenarios for the adoption of a Euro CBDC (see Adalid et al., 2022 and discussion therein). We expand their analysis to include more detailed results at country level by making use of individual banks data. For each demand scenario, we estimate the potential shock on deposits making use of MS-level data. We then apply these shocks at individual bank level and compare them to a set of alternative adjustment channels, including free reserves, wholesale funding and assets (deleveraging) to obtain a distribution of the ratio of shocks to different channels. Results show that per capita demand scenarios around 3 thousand euro do not seem to present risks for financial stability in the aggregate, though they present asymmetric impacts and could give raise to shifts in the structure of balance sheets and interbank markets.

Los Premios Europeos a la Promoción Empresarial llegan a su 17ª edición y este año, en particular, ha sido motivo de celebración, ya que el número de candidaturas a los premios ha vuelto a los niveles anteriores a la pandemia.

The objective of the report is to present the ‘state of play’ in the introduction of new Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) and their use by the Public Employment Services (PES) between 2015 and 2022 to respond to short- and long-term labour market challenges. Both long-term structural changes within the labour market as well as short-term specific changes, such as those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, have called for an adaptation of ALMPs to cater to the needs of clients. The report recommends, in particular, continuing efforts to serve disadvantaged groups, strengthening partnerships to close skills gaps and overcome skills shortages (including via cooperation with employers and increased effort to support digitalisation and greening), reinforcing activities to respond to demographic change (e.g. better targeting towards older workers, migrants, women).