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Breaking Barriers, Boosting Growth: Unlocking the Power of Digital Technology for Europe’s Competitiveness
Europe’s digital economy faces a twin challenge that strikes at the heart of its competitiveness: the continent still lacks homegrown tech...
Breaking Barriers to Cloud Customer Choice: Unlocking Europe’s AI and Innovation Leadership
Cloud computing underpins digital transformation and is essential for unlocking the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and...
Strengthening the Supply-Side Innovation in EU Telecommunications
The telecommunications sector is central to the EU’s competitiveness, not only providing the infrastructure that underpins digital connectivity but...
Models of Industrial Policy: Driving Innovation and Economic Growth
Europe’s approach to industrial policy has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years, with state aid reaching 1.4 per cent of GDP in...
EU Export of Regulatory Overreach: The Case of the Digital Markets Act (DMA)
The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) exemplifies the "Brussels Effect," extending the EU’s regulatory influence beyond its borders and shaping...
Boosting Efficiency and Quality in EU Public Services: The Need for a European Multi-Cloud-First Strategy
Unprecedented Opportunity for Public Service Modernisation EU governments have an unprecedented opportunity to unlock up to EUR 450 billion in annual...
The 8 Percent Approach: A Big Bang in Resources and Capacity for Europe’s Economy and Defence
Author presentation: Ismail Abdi is a Research Assistant at ECIPE. Andrea Dugo is an Economist at ECIPE. Fredrik Erixon is the Director of ECIPE....
Competitive Harmonisation: A Collaborative Framework for Intra-EU Reform and Competitiveness
Persistent legal fragmentation, compounded by the EU's 24 official languages, increases costs and legal uncertainty, deterring meaningful...
The Participation of Foreign Bidders in EU Public Procurement: Too Much or Too Little?
This policy brief examines EU public procurement data from the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) to evaluate foreign bidders’ participation and...
The Future of European Digital Competitiveness
Former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi’s recent report on Europe’s competitiveness lays bare the negative effects of overregulation in the EU...