Bernhard Tröster, Simela Papatheophilou and Werner Raza
As Beijing acknowledges its own overcapacity problem, new research reveals a more complex and more enduring threat to European manufacturing.
Europe’s twin transformation needs social conditionalities to prevent corporate capture and build democratic legitimacy.
Simela Papatheophilou, Werner Raza and Bernhard Tröster
The revised EU-Mercosur trade deal offers limited economic benefits for Europe, while its environmental provisions may undermine the bloc’s climate ambitions.
The EU’s twin transformation requires a careful balance between climate action, digitalisation, and social fairness.
Werner Raza, Michael Ertl and Michael Soder
The Draghi report contains some useful proposals but fails to match up to the challenges the European Union is facing.
In 2015 the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 but real change demands a green social contract.
The age of unbridled free trade is rightfully over. Solidarity should be the new leitmotif of trade policy.
The west’s focus on the war in Ukraine risks a geopolitically counterproductive neglect of the urgent problems of the global south.
Werner Raza, Bernhard Tröster, Verena Madner, Birgit Hollaus and Stefan Mayr
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is ecologically justified but difficult to implement.
The election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency as well as the seemingly inexorable ascendency of right-wing populism in Europe has raised troubling questions