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July 9, 2025
Published by EPICENTER on July 9, 2025
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Europe’s TechReg Paradox: Deregulating with One Hand, Re-regulating with the Other

Europe’s ambition to lead in emerging technologies is being held back by a fragmented and risk-averse regulatory culture. Despite repeated promises to reduce red tape, EU institutions continue to introduce overlapping digital laws that place a heavy compliance burden on startups, reinforce incumbent advantages, and discourage innovation.
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June 25, 2025
Published by EPICENTER on June 25, 2025
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Rethinking the DMA: Innovation, Competition, and the Risks of Overregulation

Effective regulation should serve as a catalyst – not a constraint – for innovation and long-term competitiveness. In digital markets, where business models evolve rapidly, fixed regulatory benchmarks – such as market share or price levels – can unintentionally stifle the dynamism that drives progress. The European Union’s (EU’s) Digital Markets Act (DMA), though ambitious in its objective of curbing the dominance of Big Tech gatekeepers, risks locking digital markets into rigid structures by imposing one-size-fits-all obligations that are ill-suited to the iterative and experimental nature of innovation.
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June 6, 2025
Published by EPICENTER on June 6, 2025
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Schuldenbremse: Taking the Foot Off the Brakes

In March, the incoming German coalition government led by Friedrich Merz from the right-leaning CDU/CSU – the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and the Christian Social Union based in Bavaria – worked with the SPD (Social Democratic Party) and the Greens to pass a historic legislative measure, loosening the stringent rules surrounding the country’s ‘debt brake’ constitutional amendment, known as the Schuldenbremse.
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April 2, 2025
Published by EPICENTER on April 2, 2025
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Does Liberalism Still Have a Future?

“Why Liberalism Failed” is the title of a bestseller published in 2018 by Patrick J. Deneen, an American political scientist. It is a book that would have been unthinkable 30 years ago. Back then, liberalism seemed to be the only possible future: the Iron Curtain had fallen and free democracies were on the rise.
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February 26, 2025
Published by EPICENTER on February 26, 2025
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‘LE PARISIEN’ FEATURE EPICENTER REPORT ON PENSION REFORM

In 'Le Parisien', an article featured research by Institute économique Molinari, EPICENTER's French member think tank, from our report 'Reviving Europe's Competitive Edge' on the necessity for European governments to switch to a marketised system of pension funding.
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EPICENTER publications and contributions from our member think tanks are designed to promote the discussion of economic issues and the role of markets in solving economic and social problems. As with all EPICENTER publications, the views expressed here are those of the author and not EPICENTER or its member think tanks (which have no corporate view).

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