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Margrethe Vestager is Executive Vice President of the European Commission.

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  1. How to Think About AI Policy
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    How to Think About AI Policy

    Mar 11, 2024 Margrethe Vestager explains the reasoning behind EU policymakers' risk-based approach to regulating artificial intelligence.

  2. Tearing Down Big Tech’s Walls
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    Tearing Down Big Tech’s Walls

    Mar 9, 2023 Margrethe Vestager highlights the contours of the European Union’s ambitious new legislation for the industry.

  3. Declaring Our Digital Rights
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    Declaring Our Digital Rights

    Feb 7, 2022 Margrethe Vestager touts the European Commission’s proposed blueprint to ensure that cyberspace is safe and accessible for all.

  4. Europe’s Digital Future
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    Europe’s Digital Future

    May 21, 2021 Margrethe Vestager interviewed by Anu Bradford on the thinking behind the European Union's latest wave of digital regulations, and what comes next.

  5. Why Europe’s Digital Decade Matters
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    Why Europe’s Digital Decade Matters

    Mar 10, 2021 Margrethe Vestager & Josep Borrell tout the European Union's new initiative for shaping technological governance at the global level.

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    Trump’s Tariffs Will Hurt Mexico – and America

    Anne O. Krueger thinks the US administration’s trade restrictions will end up undermining its stated immigration goals.
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    Americans Will Miss Their Government When It’s Gone

    Sami Mahroum explains what will follow from the indiscriminate gutting of federal agencies and mass firings.
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    Trump’s Imaginary Victories

    Jeffrey Frankel says that to call the US president a “transactional” leader is to ignore his utter lack of strategic thinking.
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    Greenland’s Future Must Be Decided by Greenland’s People

    Simon Johnson dismisses the argument that US national security depends on gaining control over the island.
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    Nature Needs Its Own ID

    Midori Paxton shows how digital tools can drive a data-driven approach to protecting our planet’s environmental health.
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    Ukraine’s True Value

    Anastassia Fedyk & Emilia Marshall

    Ukraine’s immense industrial and human resources once helped make the Soviet Union a global power, and Russian President Vladimir Putin is counting on them to achieve his neo-imperialist dream. With the US now behaving like a Kremlin proxy, supporting Ukraine has become an existential imperative for Europe.

     warn that abandoning the country could hand Vladimir Putin the opportunity to restore Russia’s imperial status.
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    America Is Gone – Europe Must Replace It

    Sławomir Sierakowski

    Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s verbal assault on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office was shocking but not surprising. As the Trump administration rapidly destroys America's credibility and international standing, Europe must mobilize its ample resources to replace America as a global leader.

     says the Trump administration's Oval Office fight with Ukraine's president is a moment that will live in infamy.
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    Can America Maintain External Sustainability?

    Yu Yongding explains why demand for foreign capital inflows to offset the country’s savings shortfall may go unmet.
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    The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld

    Dani Rodrik points out that a coalition comprising incompatible financial and ideological interests cannot last.

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