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Newsletter
18 November 2024
What lessons should the EU learn from the Deforestation Regulation controversy?
Heather Grabbe
First glance
14 November 2024
China on Trump: indifferent but wary
There are risks and opportunities for China in Trump’s return, with Europe as potential collateral damage
Alicia GarcÃa-Herrero
First glance
12 November 2024
What the European Union should expect from Trump’s tariffs
The new Trump administration might take a sequenced approach to tariffs, confronting the EU with difficult decisions
Uri Dadush
Newsletter
12 November 2024
How can Europe reinforce security cooperation and coherence after Trump's victory?
Guntram B. Wolff
First glance
07 November 2024
What Europe can expect of Trump: a timeline
A handy guide to the main decisions and milestones of the second Trump administration.
Niclas Poitiers
First glance
07 November 2024
Trump’s comeback and its implications for EU climate and energy policy
Trump’s return should not be seen as a threat to EU decarbonisation, but as a rallying cry to unite and push forward more strongly
Simone Tagliapietra and Cecilia Trasi
Newsletter
04 November 2024
What if central banks took the Paris Agreement seriously?
Dirk Schoenmaker
First glance
31 October 2024
Europe stands increasingly alone on defence production and needs to act
Europe must rebuild its defence industry; reliance on the US is no longer tenable, whatever the outcome of the US presidential election
Alexandr Burilkov and Guntram B. Wolff
Opinion piece
31 October 2024
Who will call the shots in the EU’s future trade disputes with China?
Leon de Graaf and Alicia GarcÃa-Herrero
First glance
30 October 2024
Clean and fair: maximising the impact of the European Union’s Social Climate Fund
The new European Commission should make more of the Social Climate Fund as a major tool to ensure the green transition is also a fair one
Giovanni Sgaravatti and Simone Tagliapietra
First glance
30 October 2024
Russian internet outage offers clues about online ‘goblin’ army
The outage provides new evidence of the Russian state’s use of bot networks to influence public discourse on Western social media platforms
Michal Krystyanczuk, Francesco Nicoli and Kamil Sekut
First glance
29 October 2024
BRICS is becoming a more solid construction
BRICS is consolidating into a China-dominated bloc that aims to shape the global order; the West should pay attention
Alicia GarcÃa-Herrero
Newsletter
28 October 2024
Why is the G7 pledge to loan Ukraine $50 billion by the end of 2024 so important?
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard
Newsletter
24 October 2024
China's stimulus package aims to rescue the economy from systemic risks
Alicia GarcÃa-Herrero
Opinion piece
22 October 2024
Breaking the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns for good
Nicolas Véron and Joachim Nagel
Newsletter
21 October 2024
Why should the European Union centralise public expenditure at EU level?
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol