The ECB wants central bank money to serve as the monetary anchor for tokenised markets. Piero Cipollone calls for common standards, central bank money and coordinated regulation to prevent blockchain-based finance from becoming a collection of disconnected platforms
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Are American tech billionaires adversaries or role models for Europe? Rebecca Christie writes that the EU should ask what it wants from globally influential tech magnates, not just how to curb them
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The EU’s AI Act was supposed to enter into full effect on 2 August 2026. But while the transparency layer has come into effect, its high-risk regime has been delayed. Marco Perugini argues that the result is a double bind in which Europe loses regulatory sovereignty whether it enforces its own rules or retreats from them
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The Paris Agreement provides a framework for international carbon trading. Georg Zachmann and Annabelle Weisser discuss the many questions that will arise, and argue that international carbon credits can support the EU’s 2040 target if buyers’ club rules and leverage ensure real mitigation gains abroad
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European banking remains fragmented, leaving billions of euros inefficiently allocated. Gyöngyi Lóránth, Anatoli Segura and Jing Zeng argue that a common deposit insurance system can encourage more risk-taking, but this should be accompanied by sufficiently strict supervision
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EU banking rules are under pressure for simplification. Jesper Berg and Hans Geeroms argue that reforms should cut complexity without weakening financial safeguards
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Digitalisation is reshaping how financial markets operate, says Christine Lagarde. For Europe, this is above all an opportunity to deepen integration, strengthen autonomy and anchor innovation in trusted public money across markets and payments
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The central constitutional question for Europe is how sovereign democracies can govern common goods together without creating a sovereign European state. Hans Gersbach proposes reciprocal sovereignty as an answer
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Europe faces unprecedented geopolitical and economic challenges, including high dependencies on external providers for energy, technology, security, and financial infrastructure. Frank Elderson argues reducing these dependencies is essential for safeguarding the European way of life
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To secure the benefits of an EU-wide incorporation regime an EU Inc. plan for a common company regime should become more targeted and be underpinned by better system infrastructure, Fiona M Scott Morton and Reinhilde Veugelers argue
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