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Modernizing European Competition Policy: Dead on Arrival
Modernizing European Competition Policy: Dead on Arrival
11 September 2026
L’Europe doit recommencer à construire
Europe Pursued US Industrial Policies in Digital. Now It Wakes Up: It’s Not Sovereign
Europe adorned itself with the mantle of global “super-regulator” in digital (pioneer and standard-bearer – remember the “Brussels Effect”?) to police the conduct of a handful of digital giants we did not own or control.
18 August 2026
The ‘Sovereignty’ Narratives That Don’t Help Europe
European “digital sovereignty” and “digital autonomy” have become so fashionable that the terminology is being appropriated from all sides as the jumping off point for all sorts of claims and agendas.
31 July 2026
Magical Thinking Won’t Make Europe an AI Power
Project Syndicate
As long as the European Union remains dependent on a handful of US tech companies, its ambitions to become a global leader in AI will remain out of reach. In today’s geopolitical landscape, strategic autonomy is defined by ownership and control of critical infrastructure.
4 March 2026
The European summit in Berlin offers the opportunity to leave the theoretical debates on "digital sovereignty" behind in order to finally get into action. Because what is needed now is obvious.
Ahead of today’s European Digital Sovereignty Summit, it is clear that moving technology components and skills back to European soil, building the means to meet our own digital infrastructure needs (from chips to cloud, computing, connectivity and software to the AI stack) and strengthening resilience – all of this is essential for Europe.
19 November 2025
The New Geoeconomics of Hard Power Requires New Tools. Will Europe Update?
Europe is acutely aware it has fallen behind competitively, but it is struggling to find a way to recover lost ground. Cristina Caffarra writes that Europe did not find any inspiration in the American anti-monopoly movement, which underpinned the whole-of-government approach of the Biden administration. It is also faltering in developing a response to the vigorous array of tools deployed by the Trump administration to assert power at home and on the world stage. It does not need to be this way, as Europe has tremendous assets and capabilities. But it needs investment and leadership, boldness and experimentation in vision and policy design. Policymakers are beginning to see the urgency, but there is still too much narrow defensive posturing by regulators sticking to their patch.
5 November 2025
