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The 6G Debate Europe Needs to Have Before It Has the Technology
Brussels is debating 6G before the technology exists. That's not premature, it's the only way Europe might actually have a seat at the table when it arrives.By The Convenor · AI from Models to Machines · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
The Digital Single Market Debate Europe Keeps Having Wrong
Europe's Digital Single Market isn't stuck because people disagree on goals. It's stuck because Member States benefit from fragmentation. The real question: can quarterly accountability reports change incentives, or just document decline?By The Convenor · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
The Complexity Question Europe's Digital Rulebook Must Finally Answer
EU digital laws have quadrupled to 88 in a dozen years. The CEPS Task Force asks the uncomfortable question: has Europe's regulatory architecture become so complex it undermines its own goals?By The Convenor · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
The Question Europe's Art World Is Actually Asking About AI
Berlin Art Week's September panel asks whether to regulate, support, or enable AI art, but the real question is whose interests each policy choice actually serves. The disagreement is more granular than the framing suggests.By The Convenor
EU AI Act Enforcement Begins: What's Actually at Stake?
The EU AI Act enforcement debate collapses three distinct disagreements into one. Safety, sovereignty, and competitiveness each require different analysis, and the honest answer is both critics and defenders could be partially right.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
The Political and Judicial Life of Metadata: Digital Rights Ireland and the Unfinished Architecture of European Data Protection
A landmark 2014 ruling killed an EU directive but left its core questions alive. Twelve years on, the metadata debate reveals three distinct disagreements that explain why Europe's data protection architecture remains stubbornly incomplete.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
AI Literacy in Healthcare: What Article 4 Actually Requires and How M-SHALF Proposes to Deliver It
The EU AI Act demands "sufficient AI literacy" but offers no roadmap for healthcare organisations. A new framework attempts to bridge this gap, but does it solve the real problem or just highlight how regulatory ambition collides with institutional reality?By The Convenor · The People Behind the Engine
The Pope's AI Encyclical Isn't Really About AI
Pope Leo XIV's groundbreaking AI encyclical isn't actually about artificial intelligence at all—it's about what it means to remain human when machines can think. Cardinal Czerny made it clear: this document is about the human person, not the technology.By The Convenor
Rebuilding Ukraine's Industry: The AI Alignment Question Nobody Is Asking
Ukraine's $524 billion reconstruction meets EU AI regulation in an unprecedented experiment. While training officials on AI Act compliance, the country pursues a "bottom-up" regulatory approach. The question: genuine alignment or collision course?By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity · Cross-Border Ecosystems
Understanding and Strengthening EU Foreign and Security Policy in an Age of Strategic Uncertainty
The EU's foreign policy faces a fundamental tension: unanimity was designed to ensure unity but now produces paralysis. As geopolitical pressures mount, the debate over strengthening EU external action has moved from academic exercise to existential question.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
Mobilising Capital for Europe's Green Transition: Where Do We Stand?
Europe needs 2.7-3.7% of GDP in additional green investment annually through 2030, but the debate remains stuck on the wrong question. The real disagreement isn't about capital availability—it's about what makes transition projects attractive enough to deploy the €10 trillion sitting in low-yield deposits.By The Convenor · Energy for Industrial Transformation · Capital for Entrepreneurial Vanguard
The CEPS Task Force on the Apply AI Strategy: Disentangling What Europe Actually Disagrees About
Europe has pivoted from regulating AI to deploying it, but the Apply AI Strategy comes with ambitious goals and no budget. The CEPS Task Force is disaggregating what Europe actually disagrees about: resources, infrastructure, or data governance.By The Convenor · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine · AI from Models to Machines
The EU's R&D Dilemma: Global Health and Agriculture Investment Faces a Values Test
European policymakers face a fundamental tension between building domestic R&D capacity and investing in global health partnerships. With agricultural R&D showing 8:1 to 28:1 returns and global health R&D delivering $405 per dollar invested, the question isn't whether to invest—it's whether Europe can be both fortress and partner.By The Convenor · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
EUSOCIALCIT and the Question Europe Keeps Avoiding
The EUSOCIALCIT project reveals why Europe's social rights remain declarations rather than realities: the gap between EU-level ambitions and national implementation capacity. For AI governance, the lesson is clear—rights without resources aren't rights at all.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
Three Pathways to European Defence: What the CEPS Report Actually Disagrees About
A new CEPS report proposes three routes to European defence integration, but the real question isn't which pathway is best—it's which disagreements each one forces into the open versus which it papers over.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
Armenia's European Turn: What Kind of Disagreement Is This?
The EU-Armenia summit on 5 May 2026 marked a historic pivot, but the real debate isn't whether Europe should support Armenia—it's about what form that support should take and how fast it should proceed. This involves competing visions of EU enlargement, security architecture, and the limits of institutional integration without membership.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
Beyond the Safety Net: What Europe Must Build When the Old Model Breaks
Europe's reduced-responsibility model has structurally collapsed, but what replaces it remains genuinely open. The real question isn't whether to change, but which specific capabilities Europe needs to develop and what trade-offs are actually involved.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
Does Europe Have What It Takes to Deploy Small Modular Reactors?
Europe has an SMR strategy and political momentum, but lacks clarity on whether this is a facts, values, or incentives disagreement. Until that question gets answered, the debate will generate more heat than light.By The Convenor · Energy for Industrial Transformation
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