Technology

Framing the EU challenge to deal with 'China Shock 2.0' in clean tech

Jan Cornillie, Jos Delbeke, Pier Paolo Raimondi and Simone Tagliapietra

AI, demographics and China

How young economists see the big challenges of our times

Rebecca Christie, Maria Catarina Louro, Théo Storella and Tillman Schenk

The right balance: how to fix European Union artificial intelligence regulation

EU AI regulation should trade lower ex-ante burden for robust ex-post monitoring, judicial review and liability to curb harms without stifling markets

Mario Mariniello

To achieve tech sovereignty, Europe must not mimic its rivals

To cut its dependence on US and Chinese tech, Europe is copying their protectionism: raising costs, inviting retaliation and missing the real fix

Mario Mariniello

Europe’s third way on AI is easier said than done

Alicia García-Herrero

Defence innovation and procurement reform: an empirical evaluation of the US Defense Innovation Unit

Ethan Kapstein, Javier Ospital and Guntram B. Wolff

How can the EU prevent the dollarisation of digital finance?

Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Chips Act 2.0 and beyond: Indispensability, not self-sufficiency

Tillman Schenk

A new strategy to contain stablecoin risks in the European Union

EU reluctance on stablecoins may backfire as US-backed dollar tokens spread, pushing demand offshore and importing dollar risks into Europe

Lucrezia Reichlin, Bo Sangers and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Europe needs a strategy to close the artificial intelligence compute gap

In its bid to compete with the US on AI, Europe could learn from both China and from the classic Airbus industrial policy case

Alicia García-Herrero and Bertin Martens

The hidden meaning of the Trump-Xi meeting

Alicia García-Herrero

Revamping Europe’s chips strategy: indispensability, not self-sufficiency

In revising the European Chips Act, the EU should seek to make itself an indispensable partner in the semiconductor value chain

Niclas Poitiers and Tillman Schenk

Understanding the global clean tech manufacturing slowdown

Benjamin Bjerkan-Wade, Hannah Hess, Marie Jugé, Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Kate Larsen, Ben McWilliams, Hannah Pitt and Simone Tagliapietra

Beijing to push Trump on Taiwan, with potentially global consequences

President Donald Trump will be in a weak position when he travels to China in mid-May for crucial talks with Xi Jinping

Alicia García-Herrero

Who controls the defence industry?

The defence industry is gaining importance in Europe, but the methods by which states exercise control over it are varied and poorly understood

Marco Becht, Juan Mejino-López and Guntram B. Wolff

Europe’s dependence on US foreign military sales: evidence for policy makers from a new database

Juan Mejino-López and Guntram B. Wolff