Insights (Filter: EU)
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The New World of Trade – How 40 Years of Change Brought Globalisation Without Trust
By: David HenigMaking sense of daily trade policy turbulence has become a major challenge. President Trump is just one part of a complex ever-changing picture. Stop...
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Should the EU Pause its AI Act? Why not Cancel it and Present a Better Regulation?
By: 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...
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From Digital Taxation to CORE: Europe’s Obsession with Turnover Taxes
Europe'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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EU-Indonesia CEPA: Maybe Signed, but Not Yet Sealed
Background The political agreement on the EU-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in July was rushed by political optics,...
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Von der Leyen Future Economic Legacy
In 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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The EU Should Sign New Trade Agreements to Revive Long-term Economic Growth
By: Fredrik ErixonFortunately, recent times have seen senior European leaders giving more support to new trade agreements than we have been used to in the past decade....
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The Draghi Report Turns One Today. Yet It Is Still More Crawling Than Walking.
By: 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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Can the WTO Weather the Storm?
By: Stuart HarbinsonInitiatives to dismantle/redesign/reform the WTO (delete whichever is inapplicable according to your preference) continue apace. Towards one end of...
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Real-Geopolitik: The Competitiveness Diagnosis Europe Cannot Ignore
By: 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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EU Anguish About the US Trade Deal Is Misplaced
By: David HenigTrump’s tariffs will fail in his objective of transforming trade, particularly if others remain open and resist retaliation. In this context the...
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Tax the Builders, Fund the Bureaucracy: The EU’s Medieval Cure for a Modern Economy
Tags: 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
The Internal Market began—and remains—a construct completed through dissension, rather than through an evolution of harmonious cooperation and...