The EU’s Defence Readiness 2030 Roadmap: Ambition and constraints

Luigi Scazzieri
29 October 2025

The Defence Readiness 2030 Roadmap seeks to accelerate and inject coherence into the EU’s defence build-up. Its success depends on sustained funding and political will.
Policy to accommodate populist voters won't work

John Springford
28 October 2025

There is an expansive literature on the causes of the rise of populism. Its lesson? Policies designed to appease populism are unlikely to be effective. That battle can only be won through argument.
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.
A reform agenda for the single market

Aslak Berg, Elisabetta Cornago, Zach Meyers, Sander Tordoir
16 October 2025

Last year, the Draghi report laid bare the need for reform to drive growth. Practical steps on energy, services, competition, finance and simplification can operationalise this agenda into meaningful change.
China and Europe: Can the EU and the UK find a shared strategy?

Ian Bond
14 October 2025

China’s trade and industrial policy, its monopoly on many critical technologies and its geopolitical ambitions make it a genuinely systemic rival to the EU and the UK. They need to work together to defend their interests.

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Is European defence missing its moment?

16 January 2023

European defence budgets are increasing in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine. But if member-states don’t co-ordinate their spending better, fragmentation will persist and Europe’s defence industry could weaken.

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