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Europe’s Cloud Debate Is Looking the Wrong Way: It’s Not Concentration – It’s Lock-In
Some policymakers argue that Europe should "correct" cloud market concentration. The intuition is straightforward: more providers should mean less systemic risk. But in cloud computing, improving...
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Determinants of 5G Deployment: How Scale, Regulations, and Market Structure (but Not Restrictions) Matter
What factors determine the adoption and investments into new digital technologies? In the past, the concept of a digital divide assumed that there was a performance gap between wealthier (often...
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Band-Aids on Bureaucracy: Why GDPR Reform Isn’t Enough
Seven may be a divine number, but even sacred things deserve scrutiny. It took the EU seven years to begin rethinking its regulatory holy grail: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)....
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Rediscovering Europe’s Enlightenment Spirit in the Age of Quantum Technology
The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr for their contribution to a simple but hard to answer question: why did economic growth take off? For...
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Spain, at Your Service
This blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 5th of October 2025. The original article can be found here. In her latest State of the Union address, European Commission...
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Should the EU Pause its AI Act? Why not Cancel it and Present a Better Regulation?
In mid-September, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung had a remarkable interview with Gabriele Mazzini, a scholar at the MIT Media Lab, about the EU’s new AI Act. It isn’t remarkable for...
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From Digital Taxation to CORE: Europe’s Obsession with Turnover Taxes
Europe's flirtation with digital services taxes (DSTs) appears to be cooling. In July 2025, the European Commission dropped its proposed digital levy from EU budget plans, largely in response to US...
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Adapting Under Pressure: The Global South’s Quantum Journey
by Francisco Jure, Research Assistant, ECIPE I have had an Argentine submarine livestream running in the background for days. Thousands of people watched as a pale-pink Dumbo octopus, one among...
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H20 Back in the Chinese Market: Washington’s Calculated Adjustment
By Hao Wu, research assistant at ECIPE Timeline Made with time.graphics NVIDIA’s H20 GPU resumed sales to China as the company announced Washington’s decision on July 15. The unexpected move...
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The Limits of Autonomy: Realigning Quantum Strategy
On July 2, 2025, the European Commission released its Quantum Strategy, outlining the EU’s vision to secure a leading position in the global quantum race. The strategy emphasises quantum’s...