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From Digital Tax Symbolism to Meaningful Reform: Europe’s Substantial VAT Gap as a Source of Untapped Fiscal Capacity
Europe does not suffer from a lack of tax instruments – it suffers from too many. Over the past decade, new layers of corporate, digital, and...
Consumer Protection in the Age of AI: Transposing the New EU Product Liability Directive in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland
Digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming Europe’s economy. The legal frameworks designed to govern them are catching...
Cloud Resilience and Security: Why Exit, Portability, and Lifecycle Design Matter
The future of computing points to cloud services remaining deeply embedded across sectors. As cloud technologies converge with edge networks and...
More Than Just Chips: What Europe Can Learn from Taiwan’s Industrial Strategy
Taiwan is widely regarded as the global epicentre of semiconductor manufacturing. The island accounts for well over half of all global chip foundry...
Boosting Competitiveness: 10 Actions for Deeper and Better Capital Markets in EU Member States
Deeper, richer, and more sophisticated capital markets are central for boosting Europe’s competitiveness and prosperity. High-performing capital...
Time is Money: The Cost of Delaying the Ratification of the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement
Between 2021 and 2025, the EU sacrificed €183bn in exports and €291bn in gross domestic product due to its failure to ratify the EU-Mercosur...
Openness and Fragmentation in EU Defence Procurement
Europe’s fragmented defence procurement markets undermine Europe’s security efforts. Larger procurement markets, by contrast, deliver sharper...
The Economic Risks of Transposing the EU Product Liability Directive in Germany
With the Ministerial Draft (Referentenentwurf) dated 11 September 2025, Germany has embarked on transposing the EU Product Liability Directive (EU...
Quantum Clusters: Ranking the World’s Deep-Tech Epicentres
The ECIPE Quantum Project has so far laid the groundwork for understanding the global quantum landscape. It introduced the fundamentals of quantum...
The Services Revolution: Industrial Policy for a Modern Economy
A ”manufacturing-first” attitude has taken hold in the European economic policy discussion. New strategies and industrial policies are designed...