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

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

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

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

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

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