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From Legal Fragmentation to Scale: Competitive Harmonisation as Europe’s Edge in the Global Economy
Matthias Bauer writes an article on how Europe’s global economic and political influence is waning, with its share of world GDP forecast to drop from 15% today to 9% by 2050 for The Budapest Dossier 2025: Choices In This New World from Hungarian Institute of International Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation.
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Why Brussels Should Be Applying to Switzerland Instead
Matthias Bauer writes for Schweizer Monat that democracies are subtly undermined by the unchecked growth of rules and agencies, except in Switzerland, where government remains accountable to its citizens rather than the reverse.
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Why Cutting Bureaucracy Is a Near-Impossible Mission in a Representative Democracy
Matthias Bauer writes an op-ed for the Brussels Report on how efforts to cut European bureaucracy fail because entrenched industries and professions profit from regulatory complexity.
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Niemiecki ekonomista: Przez wiele lat żyliśmy ponad stan
Matthias Bauer discusses Germany's economic stagnation, investment gaps, regulatory challenges, and calls for greater European integration and harmonisation to boost competitiveness and address key issues in an interview with DW.
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Digital sovereignty starts with cloud customer choice
Matthias Bauer writes for Encompass on how Europe must prioritise real cloud customer choice, balancing regulation, competition, and open standards to unlock digital innovation, flexibility, and economic growth across the EU.
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Brussels Blueprint, Turkish Overreach? The Risks of Copying the EU’s Digital Competition Law
Matthias Bauer and Dyuti Pandya writes about Turkey’s proposed digital competition rules mimicking the EU’s DMA, risking overregulation, stifled innovation, and deterred foreign investment via Turkish Law Blog.
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Borrowed Blueprints, Unintended Consequences: South Africa and the EU’s Digital Markets Act
Matthias Bauer and Dyuti Pandya write for African Antitrust & Competition Law on how South Africa's digital regulatory moves echo EU strategies but risk stifling innovation and investment.
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Wo Europa mehr wie China und die USA werden muss
Matthias Bauer op-ed for Franffurter Allgemeine on the need for a strong single market for the EU to become more like the US and China.
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Interview: ‘Political’ China EV tariffs will be hard to undo
Matthias Bauer is interviewed by Julia Kaiser of The Parliament about the EU tariffs imposed on Chinese EVs.
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The Role of US Investments for EU Technology Sovereignty
Mathias Bauer and Dyuti Pandya write a blog for CELIS Institute on why US investments remain crucial for EU technology growth and how close transatlantic collaboration can help tackle various economic and technology challenges.
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A forward-thinking approach to open strategic autonomy
Matthias Bauer writes for Encompass on how defensive trade and investment policies risk adversely impacting Member States' economies.
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The impacts of EU Strategic Autonomy: How Member States should respond
Matthias Bauer arguing that achieving EU Strategic Autonomy critically relies on achieving a much more integrated continental market and policies guided by the principles of free trade, non-discrimination, and economic freedom