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Simplifying EU law: a cumbersome task with mixed results

The volume and complexity of EU laws continue to increase despite measures taken in previous mandates to make existing legislation less burdensome

J. Scott Marcus and Kamil Sekut

How demographic change will hit debt sustainability in European Union countries

The European Union faces a dramatic demographic problem in the decades ahead

Zsolt Darvas, Lennard Welslau and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Draghi’s message: sharing economic sovereignty is hard but possible

European public goods should be the linchpin of a new political and institutional contract

Marco Buti and Marcello Messori

Financing European air defence through European Union debt

In this paper, we propose the creation of an EU funding mechanism to internalise the positive externalities provided by national air-defence systems

Armin Steinbach and Guntram B. Wolff

Fit for war in decades: sluggish German rearmament versus surging Russian defence production

It will take Germany, and Europe more generally, decades to match current Russian volumes of weapons production

Guntram B. Wolff, Alexandr Burilkov, Katelyn Bushnell and Ivan Kharitonov

A European circular single market for economic security and competitiveness

This Policy Brief gives an overview of the environmental and economic cases for Europe to improve resource efficiency

Heather Grabbe and Luca Léry Moffat

The three pillars of effective European Union competition policy

This Policy Brief clarifies the relationship between competition and industrial policy, and shows that there is in fact no tension

Fiona M. Scott Morton

Unite, defend, grow: Memos to the European Union leadership 2024-2029

Maria Demertzis, André Sapir and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Joint public procurement as a tool for European Union industrial policy

Joint procurement could increase the effectiveness of public spending and
help strengthen the EU single market

Francesco Nicoli and Roel Beetsma

The changing dynamics of the Western Balkans on the road to European Union membership: an update

This paper concentrates on economic and social convergence in the region and the economic and institutional aspects of EU accession

Marek Dabrowski and Luca Léry Moffat

Why artificial intelligence is creating fundamental challenges for competition policy

This Policy Brief examines competition-reducing market-entry barriers in each segment in the AI value chain

Bertin Martens

The European Central Bank’s operational framework and what it is missing

This paper attempts to fill in the gaps in the European Central Bank's framework review

Giulia Gotti and Francesco Papadia

The European Union’s proposed duties on Chinese electric vehicles and their implications

The European Commission can take a better route than imposing countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicles

Uri Dadush and Conor McCaffrey

On the digital euro holding limits

The plan for a retail digital euro holding limit, combined with a ‘waterfall approach’ to smooth transactions, sets up an apparent clash of objectives

Maria Demertzis and Juan Mejino-López

Transatlantic clean investment monitor

A comparison of clean-tech manufacturing and deployment trends in the US shows rapid advances but still under-used capacity

Michael Delgado, Yeric Garcia, Hannah Hess, UgnÄ— KeliauskaitÄ—, Ben McWilliams, Simone Tagliapietra, Marie Tamba, Harold Tavarez and Cecilia Trasi

Countries are still slow to follow European Union policy recommendations

Despite broad adherence to pandemic-related fiscal guidance, EU countries have not speeded up reform in difficult areas

Zsolt Darvas