Marco Buti

How to move beyond Europe’s reduced-responsibility model

To find new innovation trajectories in an uncertain world, the EU should play to its strengths, especially its social model

Reconfiguring Europe in a fractured global economy

The Promise of a Middle-Power Alliance

The World’s Two Largest Economies Should Slow Their Investment Race

Three ‘don’ts’ to protect Greenland from Trump

When confronting the Greenland crisis, the EU should apply lessons learned from the lopsided US-EU trade negotiations

Can the Dutch tail wag the EU budgetary dog?

A new pro-European government in the Netherlands could set a beneficial example by departing from traditional Dutch stinginess on the EU budget

The European Parliament gets it wrong on the European Commission’s 2028-2034 budget

Rather than protecting outdated programmes, MEPs should push for a larger EU budget and safeguards to match strategic goals

When Greece was on the brink of euro exit: disaster averted, lessons learned

There are good arguments for greater European integration, but it must be built on trust, not spun out of crisis

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

Which countries will be pivotal for the success of EU defence funding instruments?

History shows that decisions by single EU countries can determine whether member states as a whole take up new European initiatives

Retaliation against US tariffs is the EU’s only real option

The impact of phased tariffs on US goods and services is worth the immediate cost to Europe

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

The problem of missing European public goods from the ReArm Europe plan

Focusing on defence financing and delivery at national level risks fiscally weaker countries not increasing spending or running up unsustainable debts

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’

The case for a European Defence Compact

The EU needs a European Defence Compact uniting a coalition of likeminded countries to swiftly deliver and finance joint defence capabilities

European public goods: the time for action is now

New priorities, including defence and energy security, justify a European public goods approach – for which spare financial capacity can be used

Joint defence as a European public good

Designing conditionality in the supply of European public goods

This paper studies the consequences of placing conditions on access to sources of central financing

Why do EU Countries Resist Sharing Sovereignty?

Draghi’s message: sharing economic sovereignty is hard but possible

European public goods should be the linchpin of a new political and institutional contract