Recently, I attended a scenario workshop on “The Future of the EU”. The workshop was organised by one of Germany’s largest political foundations. It brought together multi-disciplinary staff of...

Jan Micallef - EU and International Trade Specialist, Former Trade Attaché at the Permanent Representation of Malta to the European Union The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economies and lives in...

Brian Williamson, a Partner at consultancy Communications Chambers. The views in this blog are his own. The European Commission published a proposed legal framework for regulation of Artificial...

The EU’s Agreement with Mercosur – which includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay - took twenty years to negotiate. Back in June 2019, there was a political ‘alignment of the stars',...

The European Commission is reviving industrial policy – or so we are told. A year ago it released a communication on a new industrial strategy for the EU and it is due to present an update of the...

Thanks to Anna Guildea for helpful comments. Alexander Hamilton, Europe’s new inspirational hero, not just because EU members have agreed to issue debt collectively for the first time, but...

By Carl Schonander, Tech Policy Executive, Global Digital Finance Americas Consultant, Former U.S. Diplomat  Last month,  Daniel S. Hamilton and Joseph Quinlan released their annual survey of...

Thanks to Anna Guildea for helpful comments. The EU lags behind the UK and the US in the percentage of people who have been vaccinated. If anything, this delay has been a heavy blow to many EU...

Radio access networks account for just 4% of operators’ cost. So how did it become a public policy discussion? In one of the more surprising news to come out of Sweden, we read that the CEO of...

By Richard Carden Boris has done Brexit. We are out of the EU. It is long past the time for discussing whether we would be better to Remain or Leave. We are at the start of a new chapter of British...