How fiscal choices and trade strategy shape Europe’s productivity
Europe’s productivity performance is often explained by technology, skills or firms’ behaviour.
Europe’s productivity challenge: Why the gap with the U.S. keeps growing — and what can be done about it
Europe’s economic fortunes depend on its ability to boost productivity — the essential engine of prosperity.
Can Europe reconcile digital sovereignty and competitiveness?
As geopolitical tensions rise and technology becomes ever more central to growth, the European Union faces a fundamental question …
Europe between protectionism and openness: How to compete in a fragmented world
In our latest Future is Blue episode, we explored a question that now sits at the center of the European Union economic debate: how to navigate between the rising tide of protectionism and the long-standing benefits of openness. Our guest, Ana María Santacreu, Senior Economic Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, walked us through the evidence: trade is fragmenting along geopolitical lines, vulnerabilities are crystallizing around critical inputs, and Europe’s best lever for resilience may lie at home—by finishing the job of integrating its own market.