Industrial and Competitiveness Policy
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From Digital Taxation to CORE: Europe’s Obsession with Turnover Taxes
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyEurope's flirtation with digital services taxes (DSTs) appears to be cooling. In July 2025, the European Commission dropped its proposed digital levy...
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Von der Leyen Future Economic Legacy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyIn her State of the Union address, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen touched on nearly every aspect of European life, including the economy....
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Adapting Under Pressure: The Global South’s Quantum Journey
Research Areas: Africa Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Latin America South Asia and OceaniaBy: Guest AuthorBy Francisco Jure, Research Assistant, ECIPE. I have had an Argentine submarine livestream running in the background for days. Thousands of people...
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The Draghi Report Turns One Today. Yet It Is Still More Crawling Than Walking.
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Andrea DugoAt one year old, most babies begin to stand on their own feet. Some walk, others wobble, but all start exploring the world under their own strength....
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Real-Geopolitik: The Competitiveness Diagnosis Europe Cannot Ignore
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Bruno CapuzziA few days after the publication of a Joint Statement and the details of the EU-US trade deal, European leaders were taken by surprise by another...
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Tax the Builders, Fund the Bureaucracy: The EU’s Medieval Cure for a Modern Economy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyTags: EUBy: Matthias BauerThe European Commission’s latest budget proposal – including a new levy on large companies operating across the EU – is being spun as a...
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Nicotine Lawfare: Sweden and Spain’s Options in Settling the Dispute Over Novel Products
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe Internal Market began—and remains—a construct completed through dissension, rather than through an evolution of harmonious cooperation and...
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The Limits of Autonomy: Realigning Quantum Strategy
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Dyuti PandyaOn July 2, 2025, the European Commission released its Quantum Strategy, outlining the EU’s vision to secure a leading position in the global...
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Boosting the Use of AI in Europe – Follow the Nordics?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonDifferent paradigms or mental models sometimes take hold of policymakers. In the field of AI, Europe has for the past years been beguiled by...
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How to Kill a Bad Idea and Spread the Good Ones: An Iterative Public Policy Method for EU Policymakers
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Oscar GuineaFor centuries, Europe has been politically fragmented. Counterintuitively, this fragmentation was a blessing, not a curse. The reason was that,...
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Six Months into the Second von der Leyen Commission – Where are the Policies for Long-Run Economic Growth?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonThere are different ways to think about the economy. Economic reality will routinely present any policymaker with challenges that require actions in...
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EuroStack’s Hypocrisy: A European Vision Built on American Cloud Solutions?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerThe EuroStack campaign, primarily led by small and mid-sized European cloud providers, open-source firms, and cybersecurity specialists, argues for...