Insights
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Why It’s Time to Mind Europe’s Services Gap
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, President Trump told Europe it was “not heading in the right direction”. The line was classic Trump: light on evidence, heavy on...
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Europe’s Innovation Gap: Five Charts and Five Takeaways for an Evidence-Based Debate
Rivers of ink have been spilled in recent years on Europe’s stagnating innovation performance and declining competitiveness. The Draghi report is the most prominent among many studies examining the...
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What Europe Can Learn from Trump’s Manufacturing Mistake
This blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 11th of May 2025. The original article can be found here. That we learn from our mistakes, and that crises can also be...
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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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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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Von der Leyen Future Economic Legacy
In her State of the Union address, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen touched on nearly every aspect of European life, including the economy. She spoke about housing shortages, energy bills,...
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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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The Draghi Report Turns One Today. Yet It Is Still More Crawling Than Walking.
At one year old, most babies begin to stand on their own feet. Some walk, others wobble, but all start exploring the world under their own strength. Today, the Draghi report turns one. Yet it remains...