The Mercosur deal tests Europe’s geoeconomic ambition

Anton Spisak
19 February 2026

The struggle to ratify the deal exposes a weakness in Europe's geoeconomic agenda.
Europe's clean tech industry between Trump's policies and Chinese pressure

Elisabetta Cornago, Lucas Resende Carvalho, Etienne Höra, Philipp Jäger
09 December 2025

The EU needs a coherent clean tech strategy to fend off the US industrial & trade policy shock & Chinese market pressure.
Resilient growth: Aligning productivity and security

Aslak Berg, Zach Meyers
08 December 2025

The European Competitiveness Fund could be a powerful tool to improve the EU's economic security. But the proposal needs reform to avoid pitting security and growth against each other.
Three hard lessons for European trade

Aslak Berg
10 November 2025

Global trade policy is now dominated by great power politics, putting Europe under pressure. The EU will have to accommodate the US, confront China and derisk from both.
How buy-European rules can help save Europe's car industry

Sander Tordoir, Nils Redeker, Lucas Guttenberg
23 October 2025

Europe's car industry faces an acute demand shock from Chinese overcapacity & US tariffs. Instead of bailouts & regulatory rollbacks, member-states should co-ordinate buy-European EV subsidies & revive internal demand.

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Reshaping Europe: Visions for the future

Nick Butler, Philip Dodd, Stephanie Flanders, Timothy Garton Ash, Kirsty Hughes

06 September 1996

Many Europeans are unhappy with the way the European Union works. How can it be remodelled? Neither old-fashioned federalism nor chauvinistic Euroscepticism offer the answer. In Reshaping Europe, five writers offer fresh ideas for the future.

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