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Can #Europe harness #ArtificialIntelligence as a growth engine while mitigating its associated risks?
📢New #EconPol Forum on AI's implications for work, firms & trade
👉https://t.co/PIfFCw2IX4
More on LinkedIn: https://t.co/VJTDHkS2Rp

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📈The #fuelpricehike due to the blockade of #Hormuz could reignite #inflation—and with it, fiscal drag.
🔜New #Forum out soon: Can Europe reap the productivity and growth dividend of AI?
📨These and other topics in our new Newsletter: https://t.co/LVqcS4HFfz

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US tariffs are hitting #EU manufacturing hard, but there's a powerful counterstrategy: #FTAs with 7 key global partners (including #Mercosur, 🇮🇳, and 🇦🇺) can boost EU exports by 3.4%—more than offsetting US tariff losses.
📗Read our new Policy Report: https://t.co/wpFzifkopG

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Inflation doesn’t just raise prices — it can raise taxes.

In #Europe, the 2019–23 #inflation surge caused #FiscalDrag in 8 countries: 🇨🇾🇪🇸🇲🇹🇮🇹🇪🇪🇳🇱🇧🇪🇭🇺
➡️ increasing effective tax rates by ~1pp &
➡️ tax revenues by ~0.5% of GDP

📘EconPol Policy Brief: https://t.co/GWxyQ10A0A

[EconPol Europe @EconPolEurope]

🚢Hormuz Disruptions: Risk to European #EnergySecurity & Global Price Stability
New EconPol Policy Brief on the #EU & Germany’s exposure & geoeconomic consequences of a blockade by @LisandraFlach & Philip Bodenschatz #StraitOfHormuz #Europe #Iran
👉https://t.co/Wl2HlbzmmS

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#Europe is losing ground in #Semiconductor #Innovation – harnessing untapped potential through R&D partnerships with #Asia could be key
👉https://t.co/CZznGvfi0S
@ifo_Institut @CESifoNetwork

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🇪🇺Diversifying R&D partnerships is crucial for #Europe to access key technologies and achieve technological #sovereignty. Oliver Falck will discuss this tomorrow at our #MSC2026 side event. 👉https://t.co/CZznGvfPQq @MunSecConf

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Advanced R&D is the top priority of European industrial policy
👉@FuestClemens will discuss how #Europe can leverage its real comparative strengths in driving #Tech #Innovation @MunSecConf
👉https://t.co/0TSOZOLmKE

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🎤Introducing Prof. Svenja Falk: Europe's fragmentation is a key challenge to its technological sovereignty

Prof. Falk @Accenture joins EconPol Europe's panel on industrial policy & tech disruption @MunSecConf
👉Event: https://t.co/0TSOZOLmKE

👉Article: https://t.co/lOH4w8YkeA

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🚨EconPol Newsletter
➡️How does the #USPolicy shift reshape #EU #trade & profit shifting? Why does #SocialMedia regulation need care?
➡️Previews: implications of the #USNationalSecurityStrategy; role of #IndustrialPolicy in tech leadership.
👉https://t.co/0JvHtdnOoq

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📉Trade Uncertainty Threatens EU Prosperity:
Economic Experts predict slower #Growth , lower #Investment & uneven effects of #Tariffs. Predictable #trade rules are crucial!
👉Read the Policy Brief: https://t.co/TloLVFnuLC

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Social media activism can stimulate democratic debate, but lasting impact remains rare
🪧New EconPol Forum article on the impact of #SocialMedia on protest culture & #Democracy

👉https://t.co/m8XEOhfy0R

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Europe needs less red tape to stay competitive – but social media requires careful regulation, such as under the #EU’s Digital Services Act.
📱New #EconPol Forum on #SocialMedia & #DigitalGovernance challenges

👉https://t.co/n38GUNul97
More on LinkedIn: https://t.co/PpC5H4sbur

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New Forum article on #GreenTech #innovation:

✅World’s top R&D firms accounted for 67% of all high-value green patents filed in 2012-19.
❗️The total number of green patents filed by these firms has declined annually by around 5% on average.

👉https://t.co/Ppk5DnMBNs

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New Policy Brief on the impact of the #GlobalMinimumTax (#GMT) reform on profit shifting:

➡GMT threshold is well targeted, capturing most shifted profits with manageable compliance costs.
⚠ The #US MNEs’ exemption undermines landmark tax reform
👉https://t.co/Fuh98E8TL6

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Who really bears the burden of local business #taxes ?
➡️Corporate taxation is less regressive than thought.
➡️Firm owners and landlords bear the largest share.
👉Read the Policy Brief: https://t.co/TN6Uis5W3U

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Well-Intentioned but Counterproductive: the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
🚨New Opinion by @FuestClemens
👉https://t.co/Nav6QEe3qv

#CBAM #climate #industry #competitiveness
@EUClimateAction @Trade_EU @CESifoNetwork

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Half of Germany's 🇩🇪non-EU trade relies on maritime transport - through just 6 chokepoints.
➡️10% of all imports pass via the Red Sea
➡️97% of crude mica imports go through the Suez Canal
➡New Policy Report maps key #supplychain risks
👉https://t.co/pV438mnByB

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🚨From Europe's #defense dilemma, @duolingo's role in migrant employment, to myths about cognitive ageing & gender (in)equality in global firms, EU experts' disunity affecting the #Turnberry Deal & why Germany's #broadband rollout pushed up #rents
👉https://t.co/e3SRMSWX8X

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New @ifo_Institut study on trends in public support for the 🇩🇪 Armed Forces. Social approval is rising, especially among left-wing voters, but political backing is key to achieving expansion goals. Read the study in the new #EconPol Forum:
👉https://t.co/xTbfCghzQ8
#Bundeswehr