Commentary

Mapping the road ahead for EU public procurement reform

The European Commission’s proposed reform highlights non-price criteria and joint procurement as tools in working towards climate and defence goals

Francesco Nicoli

The EU, China and Russia in a changing geopolitical landscape

Alicia García-Herrero

Why coalitions of wealthy nations should fund others to decarbonize

Failure to agree on global grants to help low- and middle-income countries to achieve net-zero emissions cannot be the end of the story

Patrick Bolton, Ottmar Edenhofer, Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis, Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Johan Rockström

With the US Economy in Disarray, Is This the Euro’s Hour?

The global economic turmoil and the Trump administration’s isolationism means that the euro could step into the limelight

Rebecca Christie

A planned code of practice would reinforce the EU’s artificial intelligence copyright problem

The European Union is continuing to unnecessarily restrict access to copyright-protected content for AI model training

Bertin Martens

Climate expenditure for survival

A coalition of willing wealthy countries should provide financing for the net-zero transitions of developing countries

Patrick Bolton, Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Is sustainable finance dead?

Silvia Merler

Beyond the short-term emergency, the EU must think about the broader implications of defence integration

More integrated EU defence policy implies greater foreign-policy integration and a larger role for the European Parliament to provide accountability

Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol

Pitfalls to avoid as the EU ramps up defence investment

European Union security requires both investment in defence and decisive steps in innovation and research

Philippe Aghion, Marco Buti, Giancarlo Corsetti, Marcello Messori and André Sapir

Geopolitics and fines for breaches of the EU’s Digital Markets Act

It would make no sense for the European Commission to back down from DMA fines in the face of US pressure

Mario Mariniello

The problem of missing European public goods from the ReArm Europe plan

Focusing on defence financing and delivery at national level risks fiscally weaker countries not increasing spending or running up unsustainable debts

Roel Beetsma, Marco Buti and Francesco Nicoli

How can the EU strengthen its merger control against the risks presented by Big Tech’s small firm acquisitions?

Mario Mariniello

China’s ‘two sessions’ points to determination to rebuff Trump

China's leadership plans to increase the deficit, lower inflation rates and increase manufacturing capacity whilst supporting critical technologies

Alicia García-Herrero

How can Europe defend itself without the US?

Guntram B. Wolff

Maintaining Progress in a Post-American World

Olivier Blanchard and Jean Pisani-Ferry

What can we make of the Clean Industrial Deal?

Simone Tagliapietra