The 28th Europe: Europe Is Building an Escape Hatch From Europe
When 27 Rulebooks Become the Competitiveness Problem Prefer the short version first? We made a video explainer that walks through the core idea behind the 28th regime, what EU Inc. could change in practice, where the national systems still reappear, and why we think...
The AI Worked. That Was Not the Same as Being Ready.
What GDPR, the EU AI Act and building AI for a sensitive context taught us about turning responsibility into engineering It is pretty easy to impress a room during an AI demonstration. Someone asks the system a difficult question. It answers quickly, fluently and with...EU in Practice: Canada and Europe Are Getting Closer. But What Exactly Are They Building?
From Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe to defence procurement, digital trade and critical minerals, the relationship is deepening quickly. “Associate membership” is the headline. The substance is considerab The European Union is generally rather fond of categories. There...
The Fine Art of Becoming Institutionally Inconvenient
What happens when cooperation stops correcting problems and starts protecting them — and how to know when it is time to escalate Most serious professional crises will not begin with something that looks like a crisis. They begin with a perfectly reasonable request....
The Code Beneath The Floorboards: When Systems Cannot Talk
Why we keep copying, uploading and re-entering information that computers already have This post is about a modern administrative comedy that begins with a sentence like this: “Please upload proof of your address.” You have already changed your address in the system....
Before the Proposal Becomes Respectable
What project architecture looks like before the acronym, the work packages and the reassuringly confident arrows. By the time a European project appears in public, most of the argument that created it has already been tidied away. The name is settled, the acronym has...EU in Practice: Can You Still Call It “Green”?
Europe’s new consumer rules are about to make some very familiar environmental claims considerably more difficult to use Most of us have probably noticed that the humble leaf has had quite a career in marketing. Once confined largely to trees, it eventually discovered...
CARE-NE: What If Capacity Building Actually Left Capacity Behind?
Inside the EU-funded methodology REDefine designed with exceptional partners from Bulgaria, Canada, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia and Ukraine There are project announcements that begin with a grant number, a programme logo and a sentence involving the words “we are...
