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German Economic Perspectives After the Legislative Elections
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Par Marcel Fratzscher - 21 February 2025

German Economic Perspectives After the Legislative Elections

Early general elections, called after the collapse of the coalition government of social democrats, greens and liberals, take place on 23 February in Germany. Despite a chaotic international context, the election campaign has mainly focused on domestic policy concerns, particularly the economic situation. While Germany is slow to take the measure of the transformations to be carried out, only an ambitious European approach will enable it to meet the technological and industrial challenges ahead.
11 April 2024 - Par Christophe Schramm

Can the Hydrogen IPCEI deliver on Europe’s objective to develop a decarbonized hydrogen industry ?

The "Important Project of Common European Interest" (IPCEI) launched in July 2020 for the hydrogen sector underlines the ability of the European Union to mobilize around a strategic issue and to overcome its traditional reluctance to provide public support to the industry in the context of international competition, where competitors - especially Asian competitors - have no hesitation in resorting to public subsidies. But it also highlights the difficulties, as Christophe Schramm points out, to coordinate and ensure the coherence of a truly continent-wide industrial policy.
24 April 2023 - Par La Grande Conversation

Fewer Parisians, but more Greater Parisians: density in the Île de France

Paris lost 75,000 inhabitants between 2014 and 2020. How can we interpret this decline in the population of Paris? Should we be worried? No, says Jean-Louis Missika, who was deputy mayor of Paris in charge of urban planning and Greater Paris, because Paris intra-muros is only a part of the urban unit that forms the real living environment of the inhabitants, which is still growing. So, it's not an exodus or a hemorrhage, but a question of density. Faced with the overdensity of Paris (the densest city in Europe), the diversity of situations in the rest of the urban unit invites us to rethink urbanisation policies.
20 March 2023 - Par Yves Bertoncini

How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe – and France?

Facing an new unexpected crisis with the russian agression against Ukraine, the European Union was able to stand united. But, as the conflict lasts, challenging questions are emerging about its neighbourhood policy, its Defense capacities and its diplomatic influence.