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.
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.

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Should the EU develop 'European champions' to fend off Chinese competition?

05 March 2020

China is distorting world trade through its aggressive industrial policy. But fostering ‘European champions’ in order to compete is premature – and risky.

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