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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Michael Sheridan |Christopher Cytera |Joshua Stein |Clara Riedenstein
When the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, told an audience at Davos that Europe and China should “find solutions” to matters of mutual interest, it is unlikely that she had more “wolf warrior” diplomacy in mind. Yet it is President Xi Jinping of China who has set the tone for his country’s interaction with the Europeans through an appointment that is as shrewd as it is provocative.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Clara Riedenstein |Aura Sabadus |Sergiy Makogon |Maciej Bukowski
Billions of euros of data center investments are pouring into Ireland, home to European big tech headquarters. But the centers gobble up energy, straining the country’s electricity grid. Irish lawmakers have responded by placing a moratorium on new data center projects until the end of the decade. Both European and US governments and the leading cloud computing firms led by Google, Amazon and Microsoft, are struggling to keep data centers running without breaking their clean energy commitments.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Clara Riedenstein |Aura Sabadus |Sergiy Makogon |Timothy Garton Ash
The controversial customs rule is dubbed de minimis. Under this Latin expression meaning “pertaining to minimal things” or “with trifles,” low-priced goods are free from customs inspection in both the European Union and the US, up to €150 and $800, respectively. The exemption allows Chinese e-commerce companies to export millions of individual parcels and escape duties. Both Brussels and Washington are now moving to end the loophole.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Clara Riedenstein
A Republican senator stands on the floor of the US Senate. He poses a question: If Russia invades Norway, would the dispatch of 10 gallons of coal oil be enough to fulfill the US’s duty under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty? Of course not, he says, answering his own question and suggesting Article 5 would automatically entangle the US in European conflicts. The power to wage war should, according to the Constitution, belong exclusively to Congress.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Clara Riedenstein
Today’s politics suggest an electorate divided on foreign policy: voters without college educations more inclined toward isolationism on one side, and “elites” with college degrees who favor strong transatlantic relations on the other. It might appear strange that the men behind NATO would largely fit into the former, rather than the latter. Ernest Bevin, widely credited as NATO’s main architect, was raised in Somerset by an illiterate single mother who died when he was eight years old.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Ronan Murphy |Lucinda Creighton |Clara Riedenstein
The election results are in, and despite a far-right surge, it turns out, the center can hold. Europe’s leaders now have five years to build the continent’s ‘Digital Decade’. Europe’s large countries, the bloc’s traditional leaders, are digital laggards. Germany is only waking up to agree on a digital agenda. The French are fast tech adopters but face an electoral crisis. Italy says little, belying its industrial heritage. And the UK is gone.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Lucinda Creighton |Clara Riedenstein |Sam Greene |Elina Ribakova
Washington DC, June 6, 2024 — The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) is expanding its presence in Europe with the launch of CEPA Europe in London and Brussels. CEPA Europe will serve as an anchor to drive the institution’s work around its three strategic pillars of defense, democracy, and digital through high-level meetings and discussions, policy-driven research, and insightful analysis from expert voices.
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May 17, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Ronan Murphy |Matthew Eitel |Christopher Cytera |Clara Riedenstein
The bipartisan Senate AI Work Group, known as the AI Gang, held months of discussion, hundreds of meetings, and nine forums. This week, it produced 19 pages of recommendations, launching a roadmap for US AI policy that called for $32 billion in public spending — but no concrete regulation. Unsurprisingly, large AI firms are pleased. Consumer groups and others are disappointed. Above all, the Senate action demonstrates the deep difference between the US and EU approaches to tech policy.
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May 1, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Clara Riedenstein
“Competitiveness” is Europe’s new buzzword. The European and American economies generated about the same GDP in 2008. Today, Europe’s is only 65% of the US size. Few big tech companies are European. Wedged between China and the US, Europe fears it can either rise to the challenge of becoming a continental-sized economy or be left behind. The European Commission has turned to two former Italian prime ministers, Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi, for ideas about how to repair the damage.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Clara Riedenstein
Stockholm is synonymous with digital. It outshines other European capitals by producing the most unicorns per capita behind Silicon Valley. It gave birth to fintech superstar Klarna, music streaming giant Spotify, and messaging pioneer Skype. As an exporting nation, Sweden prides itself on its free trade, particularly with partners like the United States. But Sweden’s tech policy fails to live up to its innovation prowess. Its public sector does not have a strong digital agenda.
