Category: 3. Europe

How affordable is housing in Europe: key statistics

One way to measure whether housing costs are too high is to look at the housing price-to-income-ratio. If housing costs are above 40% of disposable income, it is a sign that households face…

Summary

• Europe’s global influence as a technology regulator is not matched in its overall digital power, where it lags far behind the US and China and is highly reliant on others.
• Building a grand strategy to…

The long-awaited Draghi report could serve as a roadmap for the new European Commission by proposing radical changes to the European Union’s economic policy. The author, former prime minister of Italy and former president of the…

There are few more pressing questions facing European governments than how to drive economic growth and make the region more competitive. And it’s clear that one of the most important ways to boost the EU’s competitiveness is by harnessing AI…

European countries have revamped their approaches to vetting foreign investments in recent years to protect sensitive industries and critical infrastructure. But the regulatory changes have focused primarily on the threat of…

At a glance

• A three-lens approach–on adoption, creation, and energy–is required to assess Europe’s competitiveness in the emerging generative AI (gen AI) economy. While much of the current discourse centers around large language…

Buying souvenirs is a classic vacation activity. Memorabilia can range from a cheap magnet tossed in a…

Summary

• In the movie “Barbie” the titular character comes to realise that Barbieland is not the utopia she assumed it to be.

• Similarly, European political leaders have blind spots that…

For most of the past 2-3 decades, data centres and related digital infrastructure have been largely outside of the public view. Already critical parts of our modern lifestyle and economy, from enabling our smartphone use to reducing road…