Organizing for Victory...or Self-Deterrence?

Ensuring European Security and Stability

The Challenges of Defence Spending in Europe

Debt Financing European Air Defence

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)

Hardening Norms and Networks: Europe’s Cyber Defence Posture

Defence Spending for Europe’s Security – How Much Is Enough?

The Essential Role of Women in European Security

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China uses subsidies extensively to take a leading role in the global markets of green-tech products such as battery electric vehicles and wind turbines. Against the background of the current EU investigations into Chinese subsidies in these sectors, this article takes a careful look at the Chinese subsidy system and provides new data on direct government subsidies to leading Chinese producers of electric cars and wind turbines. Extensive government support has allowed Chinese companies to scale up rapidly, to dominate the Chinese market and to expand into foreign markets. The article concludes that the EU should use its strong bargaining power due to the single market to induce the Chinese government to abandon the most harmful subsidies.
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Kiel Institute for the World Economy; and Kiel Centre for Globalization

EU Concerns About Chinese Subsidies: What the Evidence Suggests

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The enlargement of the European Union in 2004 marked a significant milestone in the history of European integration, bringing ten new member states into the Union. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic impact of this enlargement two decades later. Drawing from the economic literature and descriptive analysis, the paper examines both anticipated benefits and realised outcomes. Preceding the enlargement, <italic>ex ante</italic> analyses projected substantial gains in GDP, trade integration and welfare for both acceding and existing member countries. These expectations were largely met. At the macroeconomic level, the paper shows a significant reduction in trade costs, enhanced trade integration and deepening participation in cross-border value chains within the Single Market. Some challenges remain, however, in terms of social and territorial cohesion in these countries. The lessons learned from this enlargement underscore the continuous nature of integration, beginning with accession preparation and producing tangible effects throughout the process.
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Twenty Years After the Big Enlargement: Integration Within the Single Market

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This article discusses the case of the minimimum wage for Italy as a policy instrument to foster both social justice and productive efficiency. After briefly reviewing the empirical evidence on the effects of minimum wages upon employment, wage distribution and firm-level reallocation, it presents a series of channels, from the micro to the macro level that can represent transmission mechanisms able to trigger positive feedback loops in the macroeconomic system.
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Minimum Wage for Italy: From Social Justice to Productive Efficiency

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Climate change has become relevant for central banks worldwide, but they are adopting their instruments at different speeds. This article compares the reactions of the Eurosystem with those of the other EU central banks. Do these central banks differ in their efforts to make their own policies “greener”? The article argues that the options and constraints to react to climate change diverge between central banks.
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Greening Central Bank Policies: Euro Area vs Non-Euro Area EU Member States

Trump’s 2025 Tariff Threats

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