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David Eaves is Co-Deputy Director and Associate Professor of Digital Government at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

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  1. How to Achieve Universal Access to Digital IDs
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    How to Achieve Universal Access to Digital IDs

    Feb 27, 2025 David Eaves & Luanna Roncaratti propose five guiding principles for designing reliable identification systems tailored to national needs.

  2. Central Banks in a Cashless World
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    Central Banks in a Cashless World

    Apr 26, 2024 Mariana Mazzucato & David Eaves explain why policymakers should become more involved in shaping or creating digital-payments infrastructure.

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    How to Achieve Universal Access to Digital IDs

    David Eaves & Luanna Roncaratti propose five guiding principles for designing reliable identification systems tailored to national needs.
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    Make Europe Great Again

    Harold James

    During the postwar era, Germany's traditional parties worked to establish an economic model that balanced markets with the need for rules to limit economic power. If they want to end their country's economic malaise and help prepare Europe for the future, they would do well to revive the social market tradition.

     urges the next German government to help revive the postwar European social market economy.
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    America’s Stab in the Back

    “There’s a new sheriff in town,” declared US Vice President J.D. Vance at this year’s Munich Security Conference. With his boss, “Sheriff” Donald Trump, openly disparaging America’s longstanding security commitments and actively undermining European security, the United States can no longer be trusted, and it is up to Europe’s leaders to bolster the continent’s defense capacity – and fast.

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    Europe’s Independence Day

    Mark Leonard

    Incoming Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz is an unlikely candidate to lead a decisive break with the United States. But an erstwhile über-Atlanticist and fiscal conservative might be the only German politician who can credibly bury the country's economically disastrous "debt brake" and pave the way for a truly independent Europe.

     asks how Germany's incoming chancellor can ensure the continent's defense – not least against the US.
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    What European Security Requires

    Laurence Tubiana warns EU leaders not to go soft on decarbonization in the name of defense or stability.
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    The Sahel’s Dangerous Downward Spiral

    Jaynisha Patel calls for renewed regional cooperation, backed by partnerships with outside actors, to stabilize the region.
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    Building the Next Generation of Public Institutions

    Geoff Mulgan touts new thinking about how to design agile, flexible, and trustworthy governance mechanisms.
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    Trump the Capitulator

    Carl Bildt considers the broader implications of America's betrayal of Ukraine to appease the Kremlin.
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    What Should Be on the Global Financial Agenda?

    José Antonio Ocampo offers a roadmap for this year's global conferences on “financing for development.”

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