Simplifying EU law
Business regulations are an impediment to investment. Kamil Sekut and J Scott Marcus find that the volume and complexity of EU laws continue to increase
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Industrial policy
Catch-up with the US or prosper below the tech frontier?
Bertin Martens explores why EU AI investment has fallen behind the US and the types of market failure that may have led to that situation, and considers an EU artificial intelligence strategy
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An uphill struggle
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol analyses what arguments European policymakers have used in discussions about centralising public expenditures at EU level
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Europe needs to wake up
Emmanuel Macron considers the challenges of European competitiveness and the place of the European Union in a multipolar world
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Bridging the gap
Innovation, investment and integration. Luis de Guindos discusses the revival of productivity growth in the euro area – a critical challenge that demands urgent attention and collective action
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Sharing economic sovereignty is hard but possible
Marco Buti and Marcello Messori discuss Draghi’s European competitiveness report, and argue that European public goods should be the linchpin of a new political and institutional contract
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Draghi’s real message on European competition enforcement
The Draghi report on The Future of European Competitiveness is a milestone. Cristina Caffarra argues that not delivering on innovation and growth is the key takeaway, and is not a prescription to relax competition enforcement
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The three pillars of effective EU competition policy
Fiona Scott Morton considers competition policy in the European Union, and clarifies the relationship between competition and industrial policy, showing that there is in fact no tension
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Financing European air defence through EU debt
Europe is vulnerable to air attacks by both state and non-state actors. Armin Steinbach and Guntram Wolff propose the creation of an EU funding mechanism to internalise the positive externalities provided by national air-defence systems
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Trade effects of industrial policies
Industrial policy is in vogue among policymakers globally. Alessandro Barattieri, Aaditya Mattoo and Daria Taglioni examine the shielding effects that preferential agreements can have when a trade partner implements a new industrial policy
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