Commentary

Better braced for disaster: upgrading EU support mechanisms

The European Union needs to adapt its emergency funding mechanisms to the increasing number and severity of climate catastrophes

Alicia García-Herrero and Juan Mejino-López

China might be less influential at the United Nations than you would think

Alicia García-Herrero

What is the future of COPs - repeal or repeat?

Giovanni Sgaravatti

European Union public procurement reform: a difficult but essential balancing act

Upcoming reform of EU public procurement rules will need to reconcile various trade-offs – and should be prioritised to get the benefits sooner

Marie-Sophie Lappe and Francesco Nicoli

The EU Needs a Strong Clean Industrial Deal

The European Union must implement a new Clean Industrial Deal that promotes decarbonization alongside sustainable growth and industrial development

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Simone Tagliapietra and Laurence Tubiana

What lessons should the EU learn from the Deforestation Regulation controversy?

Heather Grabbe

China on Trump: indifferent but wary

There are risks and opportunities for China in Trump’s return, with Europe as potential collateral damage

Alicia García-Herrero

What the European Union should expect from Trump’s tariffs

The new Trump administration might take a sequenced approach to tariffs, confronting the EU with difficult decisions

Uri Dadush

How can Europe reinforce security cooperation and coherence after Trump's victory?

Guntram B. Wolff

What Europe can expect of Trump: a timeline

A handy guide to the main decisions and milestones of the second Trump administration.

Niclas Poitiers

Trump’s comeback and its implications for EU climate and energy policy

Trump’s return should not be seen as a threat to EU decarbonisation, but as a rallying cry to unite and push forward more strongly

Simone Tagliapietra and Cecilia Trasi

What if central banks took the Paris Agreement seriously?

Dirk Schoenmaker

Europe stands increasingly alone on defence production and needs to act

Europe must rebuild its defence industry; reliance on the US is no longer tenable, whatever the outcome of the US presidential election

Alexandr Burilkov and Guntram B. Wolff

Who will call the shots in the EU’s future trade disputes with China?

Leon de Graaf and Alicia García-Herrero

Clean and fair: maximising the impact of the European Union’s Social Climate Fund

The new European Commission should make more of the Social Climate Fund as a major tool to ensure the green transition is also a fair one

Giovanni Sgaravatti and Simone Tagliapietra

Russian internet outage offers clues about online ‘goblin’ army

The outage provides new evidence of the Russian state’s use of bot networks to influence public discourse on Western social media platforms

Michal Krystyanczuk, Francesco Nicoli and Kamil Sekut