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Can Europe get its industrial groove back?

Can European industry regain its competitive edge on the global stage? A new EU report penned by former ECB chief Mario Draghi highlights a growing gap in both productivity and innovation, and warns that businesses will face an "existential challenge" without drastic change and significant investment. Tim Figures, a partner…

France 24

The Middle East is on the brink of all-out war – so why is the EU still navel-gazing?

A decade ago, Europe helped broker the Iran nuclear deal. Now, it seems at a total loss, absent from efforts to stop the unfolding crisis

The Guardian - UK

Von der Leyen tightens grip on power in EU – but trouble looms on the horizon

Despite cementing control, the EU commission’s president faces a daunting second term amid the rise of the far right, writes Jennifer Rankin

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Mark Zuckerberg says Europe needs more consistent AI regulation—and even his privacy nemesis agrees

Max Schrems, who is responsible for Meta AI not coming to Europe anytime soon, says the Meta CEO has a point.

Fortune

The EU’s latest proposal to save its economy aims to avoid a ‘slow agony’ – but it lacks bold ideas

In Brussels, the talk of the town is a report on the future of European competitiveness, calling for fundamental economic reforms to avoid a “slow agony” for the European economy. The report, by former president of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi, is a “door stopper” of 400 pages, including…

The Conversation

The Guardian view on Europe’s future: spend big or risk the consequences

Editorial: Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi is right to call for Marshall plan-type investment in the continent’s future

The Guardian - UK

Research nation: whisper it, Europe still sometimes looks to the UK

Getting into a taxi with a stranger at 11pm could have been an awkward experience. Especially when the journey ahead was due to take one-and-a-half hours. Fortunately, when I arrived at Pisa airport last week and jumped into a car to be driven to Siena by Riccardo Chiantini, sitting next…

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CEOs line up behind Mario Draghi's plan to improve Europe's competitiveness

The plan includes support for loosening antitrust.

Fortune

Europe needs 'unprecedented' investment to close gap with China, US

Europe needs to significantly increase investment as part of a "new industrial strategy" to remain competitive with the United States and reduce reliance on China, a new report claims.

Radio France Internationale

EU relies too much on the US and other military suppliers abroad, report says

The European Union is failing to invest enough in military projects and relying too much on the US and other countries, according to a landmark report released Monday. Almost two-thirds of the EU's defense orders between mid-2022 and mid-2023 were placed with US companies, with another 15 percent going to…

France 24

Mario Draghi has solutions for Europe's sluggish economy. Will EU governments listen?

A long-awaited report on how to rescue Europe’s economy from weak growth and red tape is in

The Independent UK

The EU buys too much defense equipment abroad, especially from the US, a major report says

European Union countries are buying too much of their defense equipment abroad, much of it U.S.-made, and failing to invest in joint military projects, a landmark report is warning

The Independent UK

EU ‘needs €800bn-a-year spending boost to avert agonising decline’

Report by Mario Draghi calls for additional investment to regain growth and prevent social unrest

The Guardian - UK

Europe needs ‘massive’ investment drive to catch global competitors: Report

Ex-ECB chief Mario Draghi’s report says Europe’s economy faces ‘existential challenge’ to catch up with the US, China.

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International Business Times

Europe Needs 'Unprecedented' Investment Surge, Says Key Report

Europe must massively ramp up investment including through joint borrowing as part of a "new industrial strategy" to keep pace with the United States and avoid dependence on China, a keenly awaited report warned Monday.

France 24

Pros and cons of a ‘technocratic government’ that could end France's political stalemate

The snap legislative elections called by French President Emmanuel Macron left the country with a hung parliament and no dominant political bloc in power in the lower-house National Assembly for the first time in France's modern history. One solution proposed to end the deadlock is for a government of experts,…

The Guardian - UK

Ursula von der Leyen on track to keep job after EU elections boost

Macron’s move to call snap elections also seen as helping commission president’s bid for second term

The Guardian - UK

Macron and Meloni appear poles apart – but what if they joined forces to save Europe?

Centrists and pragmatic rightwing parties could at least compromise on the most urgent global threats

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The Guardian - UK

Why is Ursula von der Leyen out wooing voters who can’t vote for her?

Commission chief is not running in MEP elections but is doing all she can to boost increasingly shaky bid for second term

The Guardian - UK

‘She just says blah blah’: why Italy’s downtrodden believe Meloni is doing nothing for them

The PM is talking up her underdog credentials ahead of this week’s European elections. But many in an impoverished Rome neighbourhood are sceptical

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: Moscow troop build-up near Kharkiv ‘still not enough for large-scale offensive’ – as it happened

Ukraine’s top commander says enemy sending reinforcements to area but lacks numbers for a major push

France 24

Without serious public money, the green transition won't happen: EU Greens chief Lamberts

Talking Europe sits down with one of the European Parliament’s most prominent veterans, Co-chair of the Greens Philippe Lamberts. The Belgian MEP has served in three legislatures since 2009 and says he has seen a big difference in both awareness and action on environmental issues in that time. Lamberts, who…

The Guardian - UK

EU green deal at ‘very high’ risk of being killed off, says Greens co-leader

Philippe Lamberts warns far-right gains in elections could destroy plan to protect nature and biodiversity

International Business Times

EU Seeks To Take On China, US To Reverse Economic Decline

The European Union's economy is falling further behind China and the United States, a major headache that will dominate leaders' talks on Thursday as they discuss how to stem the bloc's economic decline and bounce back.

The Guardian - UK

Hollywood on the Tiber: stars return to Rome studios once home to Heston and Fellini

Sprawling Cinecittà complex is in demand again thanks to tax breaks and boom in film and TV production

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