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On July 2, 2025, the European Commission released its Quantum Strategy, outlining the EU’s vision to secure a leading position in the global quantum race. The strategy emphasises quantum’s...

Different paradigms or mental models sometimes take hold of policymakers. In the field of AI, Europe has for the past years been beguiled by “regulation” – a model that is not just assumed to...

Something doesn’t add up. In Geneva, countries continue to profess undying commitment to the WTO. Meanwhile, their governments back home scramble for deals with Washington – deals which undermine...

Unresolved political economy contradictions are becoming more evident – between a national manufacturing narrative versus actual technology-led globalisation, balancing open trade versus...

For centuries, Europe has been politically fragmented. Counterintuitively, this fragmentation was a blessing, not a curse. The reason was that, unlike other absolute monarchs, such as Chinese...

Important policy shifts are sometimes buried deep in the weeds of academic and technocratic reports. Just some weeks ago, the European Commission published a new study of Third Party Litigation...

There are different ways to think about the economy. Economic reality will routinely present any policymaker with challenges that require actions in the short term: crises that motivate cyclical...

On May 19 the UK and EU started a new phase in their turbulent history. By agreeing a future program of work including negotiating alignment on food and drink regulations (SPS) and emissions trading...

It’s an occupational hazard of a trade economist, perhaps, that you will get your holiday disrupted by Trump’s trade tirades. At any rate, this is what happened to me as I went for an Easter...

This article is co-authored with Nathan Howard Gray, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide. Defying expectations, the United States and China have...