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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)....

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...

A few days after the publication of a Joint Statement and the details of the EU-US trade deal, European leaders were taken by surprise by another tariff threat coming across the Atlantic. The EU...

For centuries, Europe has been politically fragmented. Counterintuitively, this fragmentation was a blessing, not a curse. The reason was that, unlike other absolute monarchs, such as Chinese...