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Keep politics out of Europe’s competition decisions

The Franco-German proposal to rewrite EU merger rules may seem tempting, but it's the wrong approach to industrial policy

Reuters

Time for a red shift from Germany’s ‘black zero’

For a decade, there has been cross-party support for the balanced-budget rule. Time to break with it and invest in the future

By Peter Bofinger

Reuters

A nuclear consensus

Why Germany and France must strengthen their cooperation in questions of nuclear proliferation and arms control

By Emmanuelle Maitre

Reuters

‘We are witnessing a mutiny against the metropolitan elite’

Paul Collier on Brexit, the derailment of the capitalist system and the anger of the yellow vests

By Paul Collier

Reuters

Yes to the quota!

Why all European parliaments need a 50 per cent quota for women and an in-house nursery

By Barbara Tóth

Reuters

The left’s great success

Why the Prespa agreement between Greece and Macedonia is a blueprint for security in the entire Western Balkans

By Eva Ellereit

Reuters

Time to build factories – again

Georgia’s neoliberal development model has failed. Now, it’s time to re-industrialise the economy

By Tato Khundadze

Reuters

Dangerous EU-phoria

Across-the-board support for the EU does more harm than good. We need to talk about markets and politics instead

By Björn Hacker

Pixabay

Time for an update

This May’s European elections are vulnerable to cyber-attacks from the right – and the EU’s defences are too weak

By Moritz Fessler

Pixabay

‘AI with European values’

How Europe can find its own way when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, data protection and democracy

By Jens Zimmermann