2025 has been marked by escalating geopolitical fragmentation. In the foreword to the Winter edition of World Commerce Review the editor asks if the European Union can arrest its economic drift and assert its latent potential, and this is one of the most pressing questions for the emerging global order
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Maximising the European Union’s innovation capacity is an overriding EU policy priority. Fiona Scott Morton and Reinhilde Veugelers propose an optional EU regime to lower barriers for high-growth startups via swift incorporation, simple governance and crossborder access
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Each financial crisis brings more financial supervision, more models and larger buffers – but still fragility persists. Jon Danielsson argues that resilience should be the organising principle of supervision, rooted in the basic idea that has long governed finance itself: diversification
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2025 has been the year of cybercrime. Jonathan Sharp says it is essential that businesses set objectives and measure outcomes to determine if they are achieving their goals and to protect their organisations against cybercrime
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Governments globally have been ramping up initiatives to modernize their digital payment and financial systems. S Yash Kalash writes that nations must guard, strengthen digital rails to secure financial sovereignty
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The world has changed fundamentally. Ignacio García Bercero and Niclas Poitiers argue that the EU needs a balanced strategy to cut reliance on the US and China while improving its capacity to counter coercive economic threats
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