Eu institutions

It is time for an independent European Digital Authority

The European Commission cannot simultaneously be both a political body and a credible regulatory watchdog

Mario Mariniello

Von der Leyen Steps Into the Breach

Rebecca Christie

Will Europe fight for its economic power?

Rebecca Christie

Europe’s fight should start by doing away with hesitation

Ursula von der Leyen is right to say Europe is in a ‘fight’ around competitiveness and values, but it may lack the right pugilistic attitude

Simone Tagliapietra

CORE concerns: why a turnover-based levy is wrong for the EU budget

A plan to raise EU revenues from companies benefitting from the single market would create risks and distortions, and should be withdrawn

Zsolt Darvas, Roel Dom and Marie-Sophie Lappe

EU budget proposal: right priorities, too little ambition

European Commission proposals for the next multiannual EU budget contain some good ideas but fall far short of the needed radical rethink

Zsolt Darvas

Who You Call When You Call Europe

Rebecca Christie

The European Parliament, Economic and Monetary Union, and the Maastricht Treaty

Ivo Maes

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

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

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

Reinforcing EU merger control against the risks of acquisitions by big tech

The burden of proving that a merger is not anti-competitive should be shifted onto gatekeepers

Mario Mariniello

Thinking European first and its implications

Faced with heightened geopolitical uncertainty, the European Union should base its actions on an overarching principle of ‘thinking European first’

Kalin Anev Janse, Roel Beetsma, Marco Buti and Catherine de Vries

No Power Struggle at the EU’s Security Table for Two

Rebecca Christie

Updated assessment: Memo to the commissioner responsible for defence

Guntram B. Wolff