Industrial policy

Reconciling the European Union’s clean industrialisation goals with those of the Global South

Importing energy-intensive goods would be more efficient for EU clean industry goals than importing clean energy itself

Ben McWilliams, Simone Tagliapietra and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

What Europe must learn from China’s ascent in critical technologies

Alicia García-Herrero

Building coalitions for climate transition and nature restoration

A four-pillar strategy could align key climate and economic goals into global trade

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

How Europe can live with NATO’s ill-conceived defence spending target

A joint approach to defence as a European public good is the only viable option for EU countries to spend 5% of GDP on defence

Roel Beetsma, Marco Buti and Francesco Nicoli

An internal electricity market for competitiveness, affordability and sovereignty​

Testimony to the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Georg Zachmann

Why would European countries need to develop a joint nuclear deterrence

Francesco Nicoli

Fit for war by 2030? European rearmament vis-a-vis Russia lagging in numbers and technologies

Alexandr Burilkov, Katelyn Bushnell, Juan Mejino-López, Thomas Morgan and Guntram B. Wolff

How can Europe’s nuclear deterrence trilemma be resolved?

Uncertainty over U.S. nuclear support is forcing Europe to choose between vulnerability, shared deterrence or nuclear proliferation

Andrea Gilli and Francesco Nicoli

Transatlantic clean investment monitor 4: electric vehicles

A clear move to electric vehicles is underway, but the US is creating more obstacles than Europe

Marie Jugé, Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Kate Larsen, Ben McWilliams, Shweta Movalia, Hannah Pitt, Alfredo Rivera, Simone Tagliapietra, Harold Tavarez and Cecilia Trasi

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

Ukraine: European democracy’s affordable arsenal

A future enlarged EU, including Ukraine, should take full advantage of the lower-cost military production capabilities of Ukraine

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

Transatlantic clean investment monitor 3: battery manufacturing

Battery manufacturing investment is rising fast on both sides of the Atlantic with the US outstripping Europe – for now

Marie Jugé, Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Kate Larsen, Charlotte McClintock, Ben McWilliams, Hannah Pitt, Simone Tagliapietra, Harold Tavarez and Cecilia Trasi

Will China’s economy follow the same path as Japan’s?

Since the 2021 bursting of its real-estate bubble, worries have grown that China's future economic trajectory will mirror that of Japan in the 1990s

Alicia García-Herrero and Jianwei Xu

Is China headed for its own ‘lost decade’?

Comparing China and Japan’s economic slowdowns

Alicia García-Herrero, Jianwei Xu and Yuyun Zhan