The second Trump administration has made a U-turn on industrial policy designed to support decarbonisation, while making a protectionist trade policy its hallmark. US tariffs make the global trade environment extremely...

The new US tariffs are placing significant pressure on Germany and other export-oriented EU economies. In response, the EU is intensifying its efforts to conclude additional trade agreements and to deepen existing ones. However,...

With the publication of the proposal for the Digital Omnibus Regulation on 19 November 2025, the European Commission has initiated a new phase of European digital policy. The aim is to simplify and better align key legal acts such...

The White Paper “Simplifying European AI Regulation” offers an evidence-based contribution to the ongoing debate on how the European Union can make its AI governance framework more coherent and practical without weakening the...

Europe’s car industry faces a perfect storm. Chinese car exports are surging, European producers are being squeezed out of global markets, US tariffs are rising, and domestic demand remains 20 per cent below pre-pandemic levels....

This policy brief published together with the think tank Interface analyses the feasibility of the AI Gigafactories (AIGF) initiative in achieving its goal to train and deploy frontier AI models. With the official call for AIGF...

The Commission’s drive to simplify EU rules has yet to deliver on its promise of rapid and effective relief. Parts of the Omnibus agenda weaken standards and thereby miss the very purpose of simplification: reducing costs while...

Foundation models are the backbone of generative AI and thus central to applications such as ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot. However, their use comes with risks: from randomly compiled training data and opaque processes to...