Publications

European companies operating in China: from digging in to rethinking their presence

EU firms in China face low profits, rising pressure and reduced expansion, prompting strategy shifts and calls for stronger EU support

Alicia García-Herrero, Théo Storella and Jianwei Xu

Europe should innovate on defence, play it safe on debt

Strengthening existing safe assets should be a strategic priority for any new joint borrowing

Rebecca Christie

Bigger, better funded and focused on public goods: how to revamp the European Union budget

Zsolt Darvas, Roel Dom, Marie-Sophie Lappe, Pascal Saint-Amans and Armin Steinbach

Nature markets: how can credits and shares provide durable, additional finance?

Nature markets can boost conservation funding, but strong standards and public support are vital for lasting, equitable ecological benefits

Anna Fiore and Heather Grabbe

Relaunching Europe's space economy

This Blueprint analyses the scope for the European Union to become a leader on innovation, sustainability, resilience and security in the space sector

Reinhilde Veugelers, Kamil Sekut and Francesco Nicoli

The time is right to make a European Union-India trade deal happen

This Policy Brief offers a broad perspective on the EU-India trade relationship

Ignacio García Bercero and André Sapir

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

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

Breaking the deadlock: a single supervisor to unshackle Europe's capital markets union

Nicolas Véron

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

European export finance needs a reboot

Different options of what a European architecture for ECAs could look like, and how they could be leveraged to serve European public goods

Conor McCaffrey and Niclas Poitiers

Ten challenges facing China’s economy

China’s economic problems are structural; the response so far has not tackled the root causes

Alicia García-Herrero

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

Implementing the EU Nature Restoration Law: exploring pathways for member states

This paper explores three restoration pathways, revealing trade-offs between equity, cost-efficiency, and carbon sequestration

Heather Grabbe, Bas Heerma van Voss, Camille Mehlbaum and Sjoerd van der Zwaag

EU Banking Sector & Competitiveness

Juan Mejino-López and Nicolas Véron