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The paper argues that a new comprehensive European Technology Development Strategy is needed with a two-tier focus: on technologies where Europe aims to develop leadership capability, and those where minimum capacity is required for resilience. This means that less is more, and strategic choices must be made regarding resource allocation for selected technologies. At the same time, complete dependencies must be avoided in areas where leadership is not within reach.

This Discussion Paper looks at the unfulfilled potential of the EU’s Single Market and Better Regulation agenda and offers concrete policy recommendations to address the situation.

This report introduces Food Alert’s innovative stress testing methods and includes ideas for policymakers in areas such as crisis response, agriculture and food production resilience and sustainability, and trade and finance supply chains security.

In this unstable global environment, economic security should be one of the key transformations EUrope needs to achieve. This Discussion Paper looks at how achieving greater economic security should be a defence against aggression (for example, Russia’s war on Ukraine), a means of using economic instruments in global conflicts and the basis of a reinvigorated hard security sector.

In the second edition of the EPC Outlook Paper, the Europe in the World programme presents a comprehensive overview of the main developments on the global stage in 2023. The paper analyses and highlights how these developments will impact the EU’s role in the world and outlines what the EU and member states can do to continue learning and speaking the language of power.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fundamentally disrupted Europe’s security outlook. It also requires taking a hard look at our economy. Pre-war, the EU was settling into consensus on a growth strategy defined by green and digital modernisation, industrial policy in response to geopolitical and technological competition, and a reform of its fiscal rules to provide space for investment.