Reading Log: Three Capitals, One Chip
Trump took Silicon Valley to Beijing, the US reopened the chip tap, and Europe watched. A reading log on US-China-EU tech geopolitics, the Draghi report one year on, and where the money is actually going.
Governance
The Digital Euro and Bank Disintermediation: The Oldest Tension in Money
From the stone money of Yap to ECB holding limits: why the design of a digital euro is a political choice about who keeps the ledger, not a technical one.
The Cost of a Moving Deadline: Regulatory Whiplash as a Governance Problem
Two EU omnibus packages rewrote the AI and sustainability rulebooks in the space of months. The hidden cost isn’t the rules themselves, it’s what constant rule-changing does to the organisations trying to comply.
Governance Conditionality in the Next Debt Cycle
As restructuring negotiations pick up, the design of governance conditions is quietly becoming the main battleground.
Transparency in Transition: Lobbying Regulation after Brexit
A working note on my current paper: when the UK left the EU it didn’t just leave a market, it left an oversight regime. What happens to lobbying transparency when the supranational referee walks off the pitch and the only rulebook left is a famously weak one?
AI between techno-enthusiasm and techno-skepticism: the new utopian electricity, or a potential apocalyptic threat?
AI as the new electricity, or as a new nuclear power? A case against the false dichotomy between techno-utopia and techno-dystopia.