🗣️ Luigi Scazzieri joined Intelligence Squared's panel on this podcast episode to discuss new Italian PM Giorgia Meloni and what her leadership will mean for Europe.

🇮🇹 Listen here:
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La nueva Estrategia de Seguridad de EE UU tiene un objetivo ➡️ la lucha contra #China por el liderazgo tecnológico.
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'Divorce from 🇪🇺 has made 🇬🇧 GDP more than 5% smaller than it would have been otherwise & investment 13% lower, according to the Centre for European Reform. Last year alone, UK exports to 🇪🇺 fell by 13%.'

Nick Bryant mentions John Springford's research:
smh.com.au/world/europe/t…

📢 CER is looking to recruit a Communications and events assistant

▪ 09:00-17:00, 5 days a week
▪ Westminster, London (hybrid)
▪ Application deadline 6 Nov 22
▪ Start date Jan 23

#thinktankjobs

Full details and application on our website: cer.eu/job/communicat…

I very much enjoyed recording this Intelligence Squared podcast discussing what Giorgia Meloni means for Europe:

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This CER paper, authored by Zach Meyers, suggest Europe should abandon chip nationalism - and it is worth your time cer.eu/sites/default/… #chipmanufacturing

With some Republicans threatening to block further aid if they control Congress after the midterm elections, 🇺🇸 may no longer act as the convening power for Western support to 🇺🇦.

If that happens, Europe must be ready to act alone, says Ian Bond.
carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurop…

Elon #Musk will be free to loosen #Twitter 's content restrictions in the name of free speech if that is what he wishes to do.

But he may reconsider once he realises the great responsibility that digital freedom now implies, argues Zach Meyers. #DSA

project-syndicate.org/commentary/elo…

Elon Musk has completed his takeover 🐦. But the EU's Digital Services Act will regulate platforms like Twitter, Facebook and TikTok.

Zach Meyers explores the process of and the motivations behind getting the #DSA over the line:
cer.eu/insights/will-…

📢 CER is looking to recruit a Communications and events assistant

▪ 09:00-17:00, 5 days a week
▪ Westminster, London (hybrid)
▪ Application deadline 6 Nov 22
▪ Start date Jan 23

#thinktankjobs

Full details and application on our website: cer.eu/job/communicat…

For those in despair about Twitter today, here is my slightly-less-pessimistic take from earlier this year. Musk may relish controlling Twitter's content moderation today, but he will not enjoy being accountable for it. project-syndicate.org/commentary/elo…

Though 🇺🇸 and Europe have offered similar amounts of funding to #Ukraine , the United States has disbursed assistance funds more quickly.

Europeans need to accelerate, and to start to plan for a massive long-term reconstruction effort, says Ian Bond:
carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurop…

.Ian Bond compares US and European aid to #Ukraine , considering:

🔹 Military support
🔹 Financial assistance
🔹 Political leadership

If and when 🇺🇸 no longer acts as the convening power for Western support to 🇺🇦, Europe must be ready to go it alone:
carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurop…

Pleased to be quoted here. Europe needs to step up: Ukraine’s success is more important to Europeans than to the US.

Boarding in Madrid 🇪🇸 for the flight to Washington 🇺🇸 and the CER Brookings Foreign Policy trans-Atlantic policy dialogue there this evening and tomorrow.

The EU wants to lavish subsidies on domestic #chip manufacturing.

But the #ChipsAct is unlikely to deliver the financial firepower to ensure Europe can compete globally, or to significantly increase Europe’s strategic autonomy, argues Zach Meyers.
cer.eu/insights/eu-sh…

For my own take which echoes many of @Izakaminska's questions, see my piece for CER earlier this year: cer.eu/insights/why-w…

I am not always a fan of top-down mandates, but interested to see how mandating Eurozone-wide instant payments works in practice. At best, it could help integrate Eurozone countries & give consumers another way to pay- keeping downward pressure on card fees for retailers...