Available worldwide via Amazon (Kindle Edition)
US: $5.99
Other regions: Local Amazon pricing
Available here:
https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0GMXLX56T
The Dutch budget talks are moving, but an agreement requires more than exchanged concessions. This Signal asks whether coalition and opposition can protect their mandates, share responsibility for the whole budget and make choices that endure beyond the next vote.
A minority government needs more than enough votes to pass a budget. This briefing sets out five ways the Netherlands could build a durable agreement: shared evidence, meaningful opposition input, time-bound reforms, deliverable investments and a clear European strategy.
Europe already possesses many of the foundations of an electro-powered economy. The challenge is no longer simply building more generation, companies or infrastructure, but connecting these strengths into one functioning continental energy architecture.
ASML sells virtually no chipmaking machines in Europe. The demand exists, but remains fragmented across industries. Europe’s semiconductor challenge may therefore be less about building fabs than about turning its own companies into coordinated anchor customers.
Europe already has the money and public institutions needed to support new factories, energy networks and battery plants. The challenge is getting them to work together so private investors can join promising projects before every risk has disappeared.
Europe already possesses many of the companies, technologies and industrial sectors needed to sustain a semiconductor market. The challenge is no longer only building fabs, but connecting demand across mobility, energy, healthcare, telecom, aerospace and AI infrastructure.
Modern warfare increasingly depends on an invisible digital layer connecting sensors, drones, cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence and command systems. The Digital Battlefield examines why control over software, data and interoperability is becoming a fundamental question of European military sovereignty.
Europe’s Scaleup Fund is beginning to do more than finance individual companies. With six investments completed and more than 100 firms in the pipeline, it may be creating the late-stage capital layer Europe has long lacked.
Six investments in, Europe’s Scaleup Europe Fund is moving from institutional design to market execution. The next test is harder: whether its capital can mobilise markets, attract institutional investors and keep strategic European companies anchored as they scale.
Europe’s fruit industry made seasonal harvests predictable through processing, formulation, branding and distribution. As climate risk grows and ownership consolidates, its future depends on preserving the orchards, knowledge and productive capacity beneath that carefully engineered consistency.
