The geopolitical order keeps shifting. Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Giancarlo Corsetti, Giulia Sestieri and Rolf Strauch discuss the economic security issues raised by services trade in the EU and call for a common industrial policy for services to boost competitiveness
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Andrew Bailey emphasises the need for robust international cooperation, supported by multilateral institutions, and why they need to be supported by an international rules-based system, setting out some of the conditions that help make this system work and what challenges they might face
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It is accepted that international tax competition is harmful. Pascal Saint-Amans writes that US objections have not killed off the 15 percent global minimum tax, but they have altered it and given the US a competitive advantage
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AI-powered transcription tools are increasingly used in the workplace. Aida Ponce Del Castillo argues in an analysis from data protection law and the AI Act that their deployment raises risks both for employees and employers
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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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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 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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