Archive - Silicon Continent

February 2025

Is Spain booming?

If the international press is to be believed, Spain is currently Europe’s growth miracle (just this week I read this, this, this and this).

Feb 26 •

Pieter Garicano

What would Monnet do?

Luis Garicano and Guy Verhofstadt*

Feb 21 •

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How to torch 220 billion euros

When the ECB, Brussels, and Markets All Looked Away

Feb 14 •

Target price, not quantity

A warning from Europe's best-governed country

Feb 7 •

Pieter Garicano

20 thoughts on the Competitiveness Compass

If you care about growth in Europe, Thursday was an important day.

Feb 2 •

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Pieter Garicano

January 2025

Ten Principles for a New Climate Policy

Paris is Worth a Mass

Jan 31 •

Battle with the rules

How compliance is killing defense

Jan 24 •

Pieter Garicano

Notes from Ukraine

I spent last week in Kyiv writing a piece (forthcoming) about what the rest of Europe could learn from Ukraine in defense tech.

Jan 18 •

Pieter Garicano

The Second China Shock is here

Tordoir and Setser's Policy Brief

Jan 16 •

Focus on the Micro, not the Macro

We cannot borrow our way back to growth

Jan 15 •

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