Industrial and Competitiveness Policy
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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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Getting Back to the Core “Draghi” Problem: Improving Europe’s Innovation and Technology Performance
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalWhen Mario Draghi published his report on the Future of European Competitiveness in September 2024, one observation stood out above all others:...
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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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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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Reviewing the Digital Markets Act: Inspirations from Japan
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe European Commission is in the process of reviewing the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the flagship ex-ante competition regulation introduced a few...
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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,...
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Why It’s Time to Mind Europe’s Services Gap
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalSpeaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, President Trump told Europe it was “not heading in the right direction”. The line was...
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Europe’s Innovation Gap: Five Charts and Five Takeaways for an Evidence-Based Debate
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalBy: Andrea DugoRivers of ink have been spilled in recent years on Europe’s stagnating innovation performance and declining competitiveness. The Draghi report is...
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What Europe Can Learn from Trump’s Manufacturing Mistake
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Oscar GuineaThis blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 11th of May 2025. The original article can be found here. That we learn from our...
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Band-Aids on Bureaucracy: Why GDPR Reform Isn’t Enough
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy South Asia and OceaniaSeven may be a divine number, but even sacred things deserve scrutiny. It took the EU seven years to begin rethinking its regulatory holy grail: the...
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Spain, at Your Service
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalBy: Oscar GuineaThis blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 5th of October 2025. The original article can be found here. In her latest State...
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Should the EU Pause its AI Act? Why not Cancel it and Present a Better Regulation?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonIn mid-September, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung had a remarkable interview with Gabriele Mazzini, a scholar at the MIT Media Lab, about...