Insights
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Taxing Silicon Valley – or Taxing France?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy UncategorisedBy: Matthias BauerFew policies better illustrate the gap between political rhetoric and economic reality than France's digital services tax. Marketed as an exercise in...
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Another Attack on Europe’s Single Market
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerGermany's Uber Ruling Shows Why Regulatory Protectionism Endures Europe's leaders cannot stop talking about competitiveness. Every European Council...
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Restoring Europe’s Industrial Competitiveness Starts with Tax Reform
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyEurope will not restore its industrial competitiveness through additional funds, strategies, or policy frameworks. It will do so when firms –...
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Europe’s “EU Inc.” Is a Step Forward – And a Foundation for More Ambitious 28th Regimes
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerEurope has finally taken a meaningful step towards a 28th regime – but not yet the 28th regime Europe actually needs. The European Commission’s...
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Europe’s Tax Bureaucracies Chase Digital Taxes While EUR 1 Trillion in VAT Revenue Lies Untapped
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyFor nearly a decade, policymakers across Europe have pursued a new frontier in taxation: digital services taxes (DSTs). The political narrative has...
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Europe Talks Competitiveness – Germany Shows Why It Struggles to Deliver It
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerEurope's competitiveness problem is not a lack of strategies, reports, or political ambition. It is a growing willingness to weaken market discipline...
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Europe’s Industrial Accelerator Act Is an Accelerator – For Bureaucracy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerEuropean policymakers say they want competitiveness. They say they want simplification. They say they want to revive Europe’s industrial base in a...
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Europe’s 28th Regime: Fixing the Single Market — or Reinventing Its Complexity?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Matthias BauerEurope should approach the fashionable idea of a “28th regime” with clear eyes. A new legal framework will not by itself improve the Single...
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A Grand European Deal for Human Rights – and Against Bureaucracy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceTags: regulationBy: Matthias Bauer44 percent. 110 percent. Below 1 percent. That is the real regulatory arithmetic facing Europe. Human rights and environmental due diligence...
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Copyright, AI, and the CJEU – A Binary Choice That Will Shape Europe’s Role in Global AI
By: Matthias BauerA case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is set to clarify one of the most consequential legal questions raised by artificial...
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Less Symbolism, More Substance – Simpler Tax Laws and a Broader VAT Base for Europe
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyEurope says it wants investment and scale. Then it should match the rhetoric with a tax system that is simpler, clearer, and harder to game. That...
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Institutional and Regulatory Lock-in – Europe’s Greatest Vulnerability
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerBrussels and Member State capitals spend much of their time worrying about external threats – energy dependence, supply chains, foreign technology,...