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What can Europe learn from China’s critical-tech innovation push?

China’s rise in frontier technologies narrows its gap with the US as Europe struggles with slow replication and fragmented research

Alicia García-Herrero and Michal Krystyanczuk

Gender wealth inequality in the European Union: a distributional perspective

Analysis of single women and men in Europe reveals persistent gender wealth gaps and differing patterns across countries

Zsolt Darvas and Nina Ruer

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

What Germany’s medium-term fiscal plan means for Europe

EU leniency on Germany’s fiscal plan highlights rule rigidity and the need for reform to support investment

Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Zsolt Darvas and Lennard Welslau

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

Convergence, not alignment: EU-China climate relations ahead of COP30

Trade and other tensions between the European Union and China should not be allowed to derail joint work to cut emissions

Cecilia Trasi

The macroeconomic impact of ageing, EU immigration policy and pension expenditures

The EU faces ageing-driven fiscal strain, slower growth and rising pension costs, making employment-focused migration increasingly vital

David Pinkus and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

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

COVID-19’s economic impact on low-income countries: preparing for the next shock

COVID-19 hit low-income exporters hard, exposing risks from weak diversification and straining trade, supply systems and financial stability

Niclas Poitiers and Costanza Greppi Maturana

Future outlook of EU-Moldova trade and investment relations

Marek Dabrowski and Jan Hagemejer

China can decarbonise the world – but even that won’t fix its overcapacity problem

China is on track to meet global green-tech demand but needs to pivot from manufacturing to infrastructure

Alicia García-Herrero and Haoxin Mu

Advantages and pitfalls of green public procurement as a European strategic tool

Green public procurement supports EU climate goals but may conflict with other objectives, creating trade-offs that challenge its effectiveness

Marie-Sophie Lappe and Francesco Nicoli

Euro-area monetary policy in a more shock-prone world

Ravi Balakrishnan

How much of a threat to US debt sustainability is Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act?

The US should start fiscal adjustment as soon as it can if it wants to head off the risk of exploding debt related to Trump’s tax and spending plan

Samantha Ajovalasit, Andrea Consiglio and Stavros Zenios

Climate risks to global supply chains

Extreme weather is disrupting supply chains more often, making risk awareness, mitigation and global policy coordination increasingly vital

Madalena Barata da Rocha, Heather Grabbe and Niclas Poitiers

Migration flows from the Western Balkans to Germany: implications and recommendations

Migration to Germany is shaping the Western Balkans for better and worse, highlighting the need for reforms to harness benefits and mitigate drawbacks

Nina Ruer and Nina Vujanović