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Rediscovering Europe’s Enlightenment Spirit in the Age of Quantum Technology
The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr for their contribution to a simple but hard to answer question: why did economic growth take off? For...
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Spain, at Your Service
This blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 5th of October 2025. The original article can be found here. In her latest State of the Union address, European Commission...
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Should the EU Pause its AI Act? Why not Cancel it and Present a Better Regulation?
In mid-September, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung had a remarkable interview with Gabriele Mazzini, a scholar at the MIT Media Lab, about the EU’s new AI Act. It isn’t remarkable for...
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From Digital Taxation to CORE: Europe’s Obsession with Turnover Taxes
Europe's flirtation with digital services taxes (DSTs) appears to be cooling. In July 2025, the European Commission dropped its proposed digital levy from EU budget plans, largely in response to US...
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Adapting Under Pressure: The Global South’s Quantum Journey
by Francisco Jure, Research Assistant, ECIPE I have had an Argentine submarine livestream running in the background for days. Thousands of people watched as a pale-pink Dumbo octopus, one among...
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H20 Back in the Chinese Market: Washington’s Calculated Adjustment
By Hao Wu, research assistant at ECIPE Timeline Made with time.graphics NVIDIA’s H20 GPU resumed sales to China as the company announced Washington’s decision on July 15. The unexpected move...
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The Limits of Autonomy: Realigning Quantum Strategy
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...
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Boosting the Use of AI in Europe – Follow the Nordics?
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...
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The EU’s Digital Markets Act: A Gift to Hackers – and a Threat to Competition?
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) was designed to promote competition in digital markets, particularly by preventing large technology firms from imposing anti-competitive business practices. However,...
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Korea’s New AI Law: Not a Progeny of Brussels
Background to the Korean law On the 26th of December 2024, Korea’s National Assembly passed the ‘Act on the Development of AI and Establishment of Trust’ (AI Basic Act), consolidating 19...