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"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". Whether or not Albert Einstein ever uttered the phrase, it neatly captures Europe's economic debate. To break...

Fear of China and despair at US unreliability extending into coercion can be felt across Europe. At worst this extends to the scenario of economic destruction through systematic cheating accompanied...

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...

Over the years numerous ambitious initiatives sought to strengthen ties in the Mediterranean region. These range from the Barcelona Process to the Union for the Mediterranean and more. However, the...

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...

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)....

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...

Making sense of daily trade policy turbulence has become a major challenge. President Trump is just one part of a complex ever-changing picture. Stop the world to catch up is an understandable...

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...

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...