Transatlantic News

Transatlantic News
05
Dec
Blog post | Governments across both advanced and emerging market economies have increasingly rolled out new support for targeted companies and industries over the past decade and a half.
Industrial policy, as it’s known, is used for a range of goals, including to boost productivity growth, protect manufacturing jobs, improve self-dependence and the resilience of supply chains, and develop “infant” industries to diversify the economy. In the energy sector, for example, some countries have used industrial policy to reduce dependence...
03
Dec
Article by Thijs van de Graaf published in the IMF's Finance & Development Magazine | Artificial intelligence is often cast as intangible, a technology that lives in the cloud and thinks in code. The reality is more grounded. Behind every chatbot or image generator lie servers that draw electricity, cooling systems that consume water, chips that rely on fragile supply chains, and minerals dug from the earth.
That physical backbone is rapidly expanding. Data centers are multiplying in number and...
01
Dec
ECB Blog post by Martin Bijsterbosch, Matteo Falagiarda and Lucia Žídeková | Geopolitical tensions such as the war in Ukraine have shaken Europe’s economies. Understanding the economic impact of such shocks is crucial for monetary policy. This ECB Blog post presents a news-based indicator that tracks country-level geopolitical risk.
Geopolitical tensions around the world have increasingly affected European economies and slowed down growth. Armed conflicts and other tensions between states and political actors can disrupt supply chains, heighten uncertainty, weigh...
01
Dec
From 1 December 2025, Europe's glassblowers, potters, cutlers, jewellers and other makers will be able to register their product names under the EU's new geographical indication (GI) scheme for craft and industrial goods. This marks the first time GI protection, long used for food and drink, will cover non-agricultural products, completing the Single Market for GIs.
The system will protect iconic goods such as Bohemian glass, Limoges porcelain, Solingen knives and Donegal tweed, whose reputation and quality stem from their...
24
Nov
Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan delivered these remarks at “The SNB and its Watchers 2025” Conference at the Karl Brunner Institute.
Good afternoon.
Thank you to the Karl Brunner Institute for inviting me to participate in this important conference. As always, the views I’ll share are mine and not necessarily those of my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
It is an honor to join this distinguished panel addressing a topic that is both timely and timeless: the role of...
24
Nov
Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB | BratislavAI Forum on artificial intelligence and education as part of an OECD high-level event to mark the 25th anniversary of "Better Policies for Better Lives", Bratislava
It’s a privilege to speak with you today about artificial intelligence.
In 1987 Robert Solow famously remarked that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
The same observation could be made today. We see AI advancing at remarkable speed. Yet its aggregate...
21
Nov
Executive Summary
The rules of the global economy are in flux. Details of newly introduced policy measures are slowly coming into focus, and growth prospects are shifting along with them. After the United States introduced higher tariffs starting in February, subsequent deals and resets have tempered some extremes. But uncertainty about the stability and trajectory of the global economy remains acute. Meanwhile, substantial cuts to international development aid and new restrictions on immigration have been rolled out in some advanced...
21
Nov
Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the 35th Frankfurt European Banking Congress
Frankfurt am Main, 21 November 2025
I would like to start with a quote:
“The world around us does not stand still. In recent years, the global environment has been transformed in ways that none of us could have imagined. We have seen the post-war global order fracturing, the rise of new – and some old – powers, rapid changes in technology, and an uncertain outlook for...
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