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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The global minimum tax represents the most ambitious international effort in decades to curb profit shifting to tax havens. Katarzyna Bilicka, Michael Devereux and Irem Güçeri argue that profit shifting doesn’t just affect tax revenues, it alters investment incentives, creating fundamental trade-offs that cannot be ignored
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AI is transforming finance faster than the authorities can adapt. Jon Danielsson argues that while AI enhances the financial system’s efficiency, it also poses new, poorly understood risks, and ineffective supervision will mean a higher risk of financial crisis
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The EU must speed up its integration and overhaul a model of export-led growth that has faltered amid mounting geopolitical turmoil. Christine Lagarde warns that the EU is increasingly vulnerable to shocks and is lagging behind in areas that will drive growth such as AI
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The global trading system needs to reform. Ignacio García Bercero considers a first step in coalition building where two of the world’s major trading blocs have signalled their willingness to work to repair a system undermined by the US and China
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The European Commission is seeking to reduce the burden of its digital rulebook. Mario Mariniello discusses a new framework and shows how EU digital reforms must balance efficiency with transparent recognition of distributive consequences
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