... which intuitively gets you less GDP growth, how do we get from there to the 'good jobs' agenda? Or am I missing something? Maybe a subject for a new book! 2/2
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... which intuitively gets you less GDP growth, how do we get from there to the 'good jobs' agenda? Or am I missing something? Maybe a subject for a new book! 2/2
That was.... an interesting experience 😅 You should pitch the new format to Project Syndicate! More seriously though, I liked the column but would like to understand better your views on the trade offs. Eg more economic experimentation means more Single Market fragmentation... 1/2
2/2 And this discussion needs to be broad based and democratic: we cannot achieve this unless strong majorities support the move (and the potential sacrifices). We can do it but we'll need strong will and capable leadership
This is true. The challenge is that we need a Europe wide discussion about how to achieve this: how to radically transform our defence system; who will provide our nuclear deterrence; how to withdraw from NATO's integrated command structure; how to have US troops withdraw from the continent 1/2
For this and other reasons, I think the NSS debacle could be a blessing in disguise, focusing minds on what the EU needs to do to achieve strategic integrity
Sort of besides the point, but it's also quite incredible how poorly written it is. Reads like a sophomore's essay (pre ChatGPT!)
Bleak stuff really... producing nonsense that benefits no one to maximise a number no one will believe 😂 Thanks for introducing me to the term of 'GHG emanations', I will only be using that from now on!
😱 Wait but why would perfectly normal terms like 'Summary Statistics' get picked up by anti-plagiarism software? Or is this some weird AI-generated text responding to a prompt about using synonyms?
Also likely wrong strategically as well: bsky.app/profile/dyla...
This is somewhat misleading — the paper is not about hiring per se. These are freelancers bidding for a project, think "I need someone to build me a website". I'm writing a paper on the same platform and I can tell you the dynamics are quite different. Still really interesting though!
I'm seeing a lot of gung-ho enthusiasm for this move by the Dutch government, but what's the strategy here? Force China out whilst elsewhere the COM proposes trying to get Chinese firms to do tech transfer on EVs and batteries? I hope there's some serious cross European thinking behind this...
I'm seeing a lot of gung-ho enthusiasm for this move by the Dutch government, but what's the strategy here? Force China out whilst elsewhere the COM proposes trying to get Chinese firms to do tech transfer on EVs and batteries? I hope there's some serious cross European thinking behind this...
My new piece in @the-independent.com on the UK's tech prosperity deal:
The deal does not only leave the UK even more dependent on US tech companies, it also once again shows how out of step the country is with tech sovereignty debates in the rest of Europe.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/starm...
That sounds amazing Tom, looking forward to reading more from you!
What's worse, it's precisely bcs of a fragmented IP landscape that we'll have a hard time 'letting go of losers' (which MS is going to be convinced to let go of their national champion + €bn they've spent bcs the neighbouring champion won the tech race...) they (rightly) fret about
Great 🧵 on (one) DE view on industrial policy
What a sorry sign for European strategic automomy. Can it be that we cannot arrange for a European buyer to take over what's left of Northvolt? www.ft.com/content/10c5...
Cool! Thanks -- i imagine my needs are quite similar (checking drafts, brainstorming research ideas, etc)
Quality wise is Mistral comparable? Thinking of switching...
That's incredible—I envy his self confidence!
(Incidentally, there appear to be only obligations and no benefits in joining a US-led bloc. We keep hearing the new world order is all about transactional relationships, but it boggles the mind why we Europeans ought to take Cass's "fair deal")
Go no farther than today's FT opinion piece by Oren Cass to see this in action. According to Cass, Europe equals Germany, which must choose between bowing to the US or China.
Always amazed at Americans' ability to talk policy without it occurring to them to check if there are lessons from overseas. In this case to support the anti-abundance argument (see Starmer's popularity) or against it (has anyone bothered to check how eminent domain is doing in... Spain? France?)
I found following more people and then only using the 'Following' button sort of works... And then unfollowing the people who focus only on US politics 😅
This is incredibly disturbing
* The only thing I can think of is the UN's 0.7% of GPD target for foreign aid, but that makes sense because there's no bottom line to how much a country should help others — it's purely a moral question. In defence there is a bottom line: can we actually defend ourselves?!
Otherwise I fear we'll end up with this kind of measurement fudge, 27 (26?) uncoordinated spending plans and lots of give-aways to defence contractors for expensive kit that's brilliant to fight the last war 3/3
As someone with little clue on defence matters, I wish the public debate focused more on what scenarios we're preparing for, what we would need to defend Europe in those scenarios, and *only then* how much that would cost. 2/3
Opening paragraph of Economist's article, describing how Britain in 2015 shifted the goalposts on what it considered 'defence' for the purposes of hitting the 2% target
Interesting piece. The opening anecdote is telling though, as it betrays the real problem behind this mad haggling over percentages: why are we discussing an untethered GDP target rather than what exactly our defence systems need? In what other policy area would that be acceptable?* 1/3