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When New Investment Slows, Transformation Must Come from Within

How regions can turn existing companies, industrial capabilities and cross cutting technologies into the next generation of investment Europe is entering a more selective investment cycle. Foreign direct investment projects in Europe fell by 7% in 2025, while Germany recorded a 10% decline. At the same time, project numbers grew…

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European Competitiveness

Rethinking Europe’s Competitiveness

Europe’s future competitiveness will be electric, resource-secure and alliance-based. President von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech this week set out a clear economic proposition: Europe has to build…

Transforming your EDO

EDO Transformation: rethink the purpose, not just the process

Transforming your EDO The design of the earliest motor cars departed as little as possible from those of horse-drawn carts. It was decades before innovators realised that a ‘horseless carriages’…

The Big, BeaEUtiful Trade Deal

US–EU tariff pact rewrites the map for energy, autos and chips. On July 27, 2025, President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stepped out from closed-door…

UK Industrial Strategy: It Ain’t What You Do It’s The Way That You Do It

As the UK publishes its long-awaited Industrial Strategy, our UK MD, Nick Watson, argues that debates over whether the UK should be ‘picking winners’ are a misplaced distraction. The key…

Trade on Trial: President Trump’s Tariffs Face the Courts – and the Clock

What just happened? On 28 May, the US Court of International Trade (CIT) issued a permanent injunction blocking President Trump’s recently imposed “Liberation Day” tariffs – a 10% across-the-board levy on all imported goods and higher “reciprocal”…

Get Back To Where You Once Belonged

Get back to where you once belonged The port of Liverpool was the first UK landfall for many immigrants to the UK including thousands of Irish like myself who 30…

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