Innovation

Freyja and the making of a European defence industry

More structured and scaled-up defence cooperation, backed with EU funding, will benefit both Europe and Ukraine

Elina Ribakova, Nataliia Shapoval and Guntram B. Wolff

How climate policies can speed up manufacturing decarbonisation in the Western Balkans

Western Balkan firms are adopting measures to reduce environmental impacts, but smaller local firms need support to comply with EU regulations

Nina Vujanović

Europe’s electrification and industrial competitiveness

Bruegel Deputy Director Simone Tagliapietra spoke at the informal meeting of EU energy ministers, in a session on innovation and market design

Simone Tagliapietra

How can Europe address its pressing AI compute infrastructure shortfall?

Europe’s AI compute gap will not close through capital alone, making faster permits, grid access and output-side sovereignty tools essential

Bertin Martens and Tillman Schenk

China’s artificial intelligence goals and strategic choices for Europe

China’s AI strategy pairs domestic control with global diffusion, aiming to lead innovation, standards and governance on its own terms

Alicia García-Herrero and Théo Storella

European Clean Tech Atlas

The Atlas tracks Europe's clean-tech transformation, showing how adoption, investment and industrial change are unfolding across the continent

Hèctor Badenes Rodríguez, Benjamin Bjerkan-Wade, Marie Jugé, Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Ben McWilliams and Simone Tagliapietra

The billionaire paradox

The EU should ask what it wants from globally influential tech magnates, not just how to curb them

Rebecca Christie

China’s Tech Stocks Are Falling Despite Their Own Breakthroughs

Alicia García-Herrero

Reforming European Defence Procurement to Boost Military Innovation and Startups

Ethan Kapstein, Javier Ospital and Guntram B. Wolff

The battle for the AI stack: Nvidia versus Huawei, with Europe watching from the sidelines

Alicia García-Herrero

The battle for the AI stack

Europe’s options for AI in the midst of US-China strategic competition

Alicia García-Herrero, Bertin Martens, Paul Triolo and Yuyun Zhan

How is the Digital Markets Act supporting AI innovation in Europe?

Fiona M. Scott Morton

Artificial-intelligence competition in Europe: the role of DMA Article 6(7)

The DMA’s Android AI access rules could curb Google’s advantage, opening Europe’s AI market to rivals and strengthening innovation incentives

Fiona M. Scott Morton

Stack battles: the US-China artificial-intelligence rivalry is moving beyond chips alone

China is challenging US leadership in both AI hardware and software, with Europe unlikely to catch up

Alicia García-Herrero and Bertin Martens

Europe and its allies must plan to offset the AI dependency risk

A sudden suspension of Anthropic’s most powerful models for non-Americans previews a world in which access to AI can be abruptly cut

Alicia García-Herrero and Soumitra Dutta