Written with a great team of people: Katarzyna Andrejuk, Craig Parsons, Susanne Schmidt, Andy Smith, and Jarle Trondal – all part of the SINGLEMARKETS project at @unioslo-arena.bsky.social

We've done hundreds of interviews with small and large businesses, associations and officials. It's striking that Americans tend to see barriers to trade between US states as given and not a political problem. Europeans businesses much more likely to look to the EU for solutions.

Both are part of a special issue that compares the single markets in the EU and US. We find – surprisingly! – that the market in both construction services and spirits is more harmonised in the EU than the US. More American barriers to trade, and much less political will to harmonise.

...endorsement of Putin's imperial war of conquest in Ukraine.

Vučić, the autocratic leader of an EU candidate country, is siding with the EU's geopolitical adversary. This is a pretty black and white affair: the EU has to react with meaningful measures, beyond mere statements.

Excellent piece. Totally bankrupt EU response. And I don’t really see it changing either, unfortunately