Keen to localize production & reduce dependence from China, Europe’s EV industry is becoming increasingly exposed to a local autocrat. I wrote about Viktor Orban’s startling bid to make Hungary a “battery superpower”
Just out in @phenomenalworld
https://t.co/GJuDPqeuSF
🚨New Discussion Paper🚨 about the macroeconomic consequences of US tariff hikes, based on quantitative simulations by the European Commission's multi-region New Keynesian DSGE model, QUEST. Thread 👇1/12
https://t.co/RgoYWFstLU
Striking data from @Bloomberg — that dense cluster of large grey circles in Hungary highlights Europe’s growing dependence on batteries produced by Chinese firms in an autocratic member state.
EU strategic autonomy? Not quite.
https://t.co/ex10fHXv2p
Striking data from @Bloomberg — that dense cluster of large grey circles in Hungary highlights Europe’s growing dependence on batteries produced by Chinese firms in an autocratic member state.
EU strategic autonomy? Not quite.
https://t.co/ex10fHXv2p
Keen to localize production & reduce dependence from China, Europe’s EV industry is becoming increasingly exposed to a local autocrat. I wrote about Viktor Orban’s startling bid to make Hungary a “battery superpower”
Just out in @phenomenalworld
https://t.co/GJuDPqeuSF
Today, I swore in as Member of Parliament. I pledge to amplify the voices of all those who are overlooked and oppressed by Orban’s regime. As a liberal woman, this space feels like another planet — but the more they try to silence us, the louder we will become.
✍️ “The collapse of Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition wasn’t just a matter of personal differences—it resulted from a fiscal orthodoxy that has shackled Germany’s economy for over a decade,” @palmapolyak writes in her op-ed. 🇩🇪
🧑💻 Read it now:
👉 https://t.co/kb0xCv6Q6m
The Economist, on German "fears of deindustrialisation" --
Frankly the decline in industrial production in Germany appears to predate both the pandemic and the (very real) natural gas shock of 2022 ...
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https://t.co/rtx8qP7rDf
Check out this website that my dear friend and colleague @leek_lauren set up together with @simeonbischl ! Central banks produce a lot of textual output these days but it's often overwhelming. The data dashboards on offer here are neat and accessible.
The Iowa Selzer poll is probably a bit of an outlier (time will tell), but Iowa -- with its peerless bean and corn land -- does have reason to worry about a new trade war with China.
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Brilliant work on the inconvenient political & environmental truths around Hungary’s battery policy “success” by @palmapolyak presented at @Columbia New Thinking in Industrial Policy conference.
What does Hungary’s clean tech bid mean for Europe? @thencarolsaid sits down with @Palmapolyak to discuss Hungary’s role in Europe’s clean tech industry as well as the geopolitical and environmental implications. https://t.co/ywfjBJVjtK
Some parts of the global south have even outpaced China. Latin America hit the same share of renewable generation as China, but got there four years *faster*:
https://t.co/4GCdEOOw0m
Yesterday, for the first time, @motyo6 & I voted at the Brussels local elections.
Because coming from Hungary, what we REALLY needed was another space to read headlines about our chosen side's "catastrophic defeat"😅
Thx, car people! You made air pollution great again😤