Transatlantic relations

From strategy to doctrine: the next steps for European economic security

The EU needs a balanced strategy to cut reliance on the US and China while improving its capacity to counter coercive economic threats

Ignacio García Bercero and Niclas Poitiers

Understanding US foreign military sales globally since 2008: an analysis of a new dataset

The paper presents a new dataset of all US Foreign Military Sales since 2008 and analyses global trends in volumes and equipment types

Juan Mejino-López, Javier Ospital and Guntram B. Wolff

Tariffs, deals and multilateral ideals: can the World Trade Organization survive?

The Trump administration’s trade policy accelerates the WTO’s decline and challenges global trade governance

Petros C. Mavroidis

How can Europe stress test its reliance on US military exports?

Guntram B. Wolff

Europe’s dependence on US foreign military sales and what to do about it

Europe’s reliance on US arms raises autonomy concerns, as security worsens and leaders aim to cut strategic and technological dependence

Juan Mejino-López and Guntram B. Wolff

European exports in geopolitical storms

With demand from US and China weakening, the EU can boost trade by focusing on other markets and strengthening global partnerships

Niclas Poitiers, Madalena Barata da Rocha and Nicolas Boivin

How can Europe hold its own in a multipolar world?

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

Geopolitical shifts and their economic impacts on Europe: Short-term risks, medium-term scenarios and policy choices

André Sapir, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

How long will the tariff madness last?

Pessimists argue Trump’s tariffs are here to stay; optimists argue that governments have limited ability to inflict pain on their electorates

Francesco Papadia

Basel under siege: is the end in sight for global cooperation on financial rules?

Rebecca Christie

The EU’s new climate and trade policy will be a good deal for US steel and aluminum

Simone Tagliapietra

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

The implications of G7 agreement on the global minimum tax

Though the European Union might not like a ‘side-by-side’ global minimum tax system, it has little choice but to work with it for now

Pascal Saint-Amans