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How Europe can save for success
The EU’s new top finance official, Maria Luis Albuquerque, should lead member states and their citizens towards better retail savings
The precarious promise of the Paris Agreement’s Article 6
Agreement on a global carbon trading framework could complete the global climate architecture, but the risks are significant
Better braced for disaster: upgrading EU support mechanisms
The European Union needs to adapt its emergency funding mechanisms to the increasing number and severity of climate catastrophes
European Union public procurement reform: a difficult but essential balancing act
Upcoming reform of EU public procurement rules will need to reconcile various trade-offs – and should be prioritised to get the benefits sooner
China on Trump: indifferent but wary
There are risks and opportunities for China in Trump’s return, with Europe as potential collateral damage
First glance items
First glance
19 October 2023
Israel-Hamas war: implications for gas markets
The conflict has already cut gas supplies to Israel and could start to have wider impacts by weighing on exports
First glance
17 October 2023
To unblock fiscal rule reform, the EU should reinstate its excessive deficit procedure
Reapplying the excessive deficit procedure could create space for European Union countries to decide on longer-term rule change
First glance
10 October 2023
How might China hit back over the EU’s electric vehicle anti-subsidy investigation?
China’s silence towards the European Union’s electric vehicle probe could mean that a more harmful retaliation is on its way
First glance
10 October 2023
Israel-Hamas war: implications for the global oil market
Fears of Iranian involvement in the Hamas attack could destabilise the global oil market
First glance
04 October 2023
Europe’s strategic challenge
The EU should pursue ‘gradual and pragmatic federalism,’ underpinned by essential governance reform.
First glance
20 September 2023
European Union grain imports from Ukraine: the right decision and a cynical rebellion
The European Commission was right to let restrictive measures on Ukrainian grain lapse, but the decision has had negative side-effects.
First glance
15 September 2023
Making the most of Europe’s anti-subsidy probe into Chinese electric vehicles
The EU anti-subsidy investigation into EVs from China is a reminder of the need for a new EU green industrial policy strategy.
First glance
12 September 2023
Can Italy leave the Belt and Road Initiative without a backlash?
How China responds to Italy’s exit from the BRI may influence other members who are contemplating a similar move.
First glance
11 September 2023
The State of the European Union speech must address the return of economic policy trade-offs
The European Commission president should set out the need for a new EU business model founded on the supply of genuine European public goods.
First glance
06 September 2023
Competition with politicisation is not competition, it’s harmful protectionism
The European Union should reaffirm the principle that undue interference in competition enforcement is protectionism that has negative effects.
First glance
29 August 2023
The manufacturing jobs boom that isn’t
The US Inflation Reduction Act shows that massive subsidies are not leading to massive manufacturing job creation.
First glance
18 July 2023
The unjustified campaign against the nomination of Fiona Scott Morton
Critics argue that her US citizenship and previous work for US tech giants might undermine Brussels’s efforts to tackle big-tech market power.
First glance
03 July 2023
Tax for climate finance should start with shipping
Emissions from international shipping are the most realistic target for taxes to pay for climate spending in developing countries.
First glance
22 June 2023
European Commission antitrust case targets Google’s dominance of online ad-space buying
The European Commission for the first time is considering forcing Google to divest part of its advertising services.
First glance
19 May 2023
Central banks: uncertainty is the problem, not managing the trilemma
Regaining price stability is difficult but doable; the bigger problem facing central banks is economic uncertainty.
First glance
11 May 2023
The age of competition in generative artificial intelligence has begun
Competition in generative artificial intelligence spurs disruptive, potentially beneficial innovations, but not without costs and risks.
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