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Europe has fallen behind America and the gap is growing
From technology to energy to capital markets and universities, the EU cannot compete with the US
GIDEON RACHMAN
The Ukraine war has revived the transatlantic alliance. But the relationship between the US and its European allies is increasingly lopsided.
The US economy is now considerably richer and more dynamic than the EU or Britain — and the gap is growing. That will have an impact well beyond relative living standards. Europe’s dependence on the US for technology, energy, capital and military protection is steadily undermining any aspirations the EU might have for “strategic autonomy”.
In 2008, the EU and the US economies were roughly the same size. But since the global financial crisis, their economic fortunes have dramatically diverged. As Jeremy Shapiro and Jana Puglierin of the European Council on Foreign Relations point out(opens a new window): “In 2008 the EU’s economy was somewhat larger than America’s: $16.2tn versus $14.7tn. By 2022, the US economy had grown to $25tn, whereas the EU and the UK together had only reached $19.8tn. America’s economy is now nearly one-third bigger. It is more than 50 per cent larger than the EU without the UK.”
The aggregate figures are shocking. Underpinning them is a picture of a Europe that has fallen behind — sector by sector.
The European technology landscape is dominated by US firms such as Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. The seven largest tech firms in the world, by market capitalisation, are all American. There are only two European companies in the top 20 — ASML and SAP. Whereas China has developed domestic tech giants of its own, European champions are often acquired by American companies. Skype was bought by Microsoft in 2011; DeepMind was bought by Google in 2014. The development of AI is also likely to be dominated by American and Chinese firms.
The leading universities that feed the pipeline of tech start-ups in the US are lacking in the EU. The Shanghai and THE rankings of the world’s top universities both have only one EU institution in the top 30. (Britain does better — courtesy of Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial and others.)
In 1990, Europe made 44 per cent of the world’s semiconductors. That figure is now 9 per cent; compared with 12 per cent for America. Both the EU and the US are rushing to build up their capabilities. But while the US is expected to see 14 new semiconductor plants come on stream by 2025, Europe and the Middle East will add just 10 — compared with 43 new facilities in China and Taiwan.
Both the US and the EU are looking to turn this situation around with ambitious industrial policies that provide public finance and incentives for chip manufacturers and producers of electric vehicles. But the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency gives the Americans the ability to finance their ambitions, without spooking the markets. As one European industrialist puts it: “They can just swipe the credit card.” The EU, by contrast, has a much smaller budget and has only just begun issuing common debt.
Private capital is also much more readily available in the US. Paul Achleitner, chair of the global advisory board at Deutsche Bank, says that Europe is now “almost totally dependent on US capital markets”. He tells me that Europe has very few of the large pension funds that give depth to the US capital markets, adding that: “If you want to get anything sizeable done — whether it is an acquisition or an IPO — you always go back to American investors.” The EU has spoken a lot about creating a “capital markets union” to give Europe some of the scale of the US. But progress has been feeble.
Unlike Europe, the US also has plentiful and cheap domestic supplies of energy. The shale revolution means that America is now the world’s largest producer of oil and gas. Meanwhile, energy prices in Europe have soared. The Ukraine war and the loss of cheap Russian gas mean that European industry typically pays three or four times as much for energy as their American competitors. Gloomy European bosses say this is already leading to factory closures in Europe.
Some in Britain may be tempted to see all this as proof that, inside the EU, Britain was “shackled to a corpse” and that Brexit was a good move. But, outside the European single market, Britain suffers from an exaggerated version of the problems of scale that are hobbling the EU itself. British industry is already falling behind, as a result.
So are there really no areas where Europe is a world leader? Some point proudly to the fact that the size of the EU single market means that companies all over the world have had to adopt European regulations — the so-called “Brussels effect”. But it would clearly be better to lead the world in creating wealth, rather than regulating it.
Europe does outperform in “lifestyle” industries. Almost two-thirds of the world’s tourist arrivals are into Europe. The luxury goods market is dominated by European companies. Football, the world’s most popular sport, is dominated by European teams — although many of the biggest clubs are now owned by Middle Eastern, American or Asian investors.
Europe’s dominance of lifestyle industries underlines that life in the old continent is still attractive for many. But perhaps that is part of the problem. Without a greater sense of threat, Europe may never summon the will to reverse its inexorable decline in power, influence and wealth.
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И кажем себи у сну, еј бре коњу па ти ни немаш озвучење, имаш оне две кутијице око монитора, видећеш кад се пробудиш...
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Greek elections – Exit poll
— MacroPolis (@MacroPolis_gr) June 25, 2023
Seat projections (300 total)
New Democracy 158
SYRIZA 45
PASOK 30
Communist Party (KKE) 21
Spartans 13
Greek Solution 9
Niki 8
Plefsi Eleftherias 8
MeRA25 8
https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-06-25/greeks-vote-in-second-general-election-in-5-weeks-and-conservative-party-is-favored-to-win-majority.htmlIn May elections, held under a proportional representation system, Mitsotakis’ party fell five seats short, and he decided not to try to form a coalition government, preferring instead to take his chances with a second election.
Sunday’s vote is being held under an electoral system that grants a bonus of between 25 and 50 seats to the winning party, depending on its performance, which makes it easier for a party to win more than the required 151 seats in the 300-member parliament to form a government.
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Летећи Полип wrote:Svugde se vraćaju te mejnstrim centrističke linije. Samo sa apdejtovanim sadržajem tog centrizma.
Pa ljudima dobro. Sami kazete na susednim topicima da pol pot nije bio lud.
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Mada deluje da generalno zive malo bolje nego pre 5 god. Ipak raslojavanje je izrazenije. Cene nekretnina rastu ali ne još astronomski. Ponovo kupuju nova kola.
Micotakis je plus dodatno vezao brod za amere.
I to je to. Kandidat Pasoka je dosta nehaitmatičan sredovečni dežmekonja. Kke neće tamo biti nikada većina, Cipras je krenuo Tadićevim putem.
Vole grci dinastije. Neki Papandreu možda za 15 god
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A far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate won a vote on Sunday to become a district leader in Europe's biggest economy for the first time, a breakthrough for the party which has hit record highs in national polls.
The 10-year old AfD, with which Germany's mainstream parties officially refuse to cooperate due to its radical views, won a run-off vote in the Sonneberg district in the eastern state of Thuringia with its candidate garnering 52.8% of the vote.
It is the latest success for the party which is riding a wave of popular discontent with Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz's awkward coalition with the Greens and Free Democrats (FDP) which is dogged by infighting over policy and the budget.
Polling at 19%-20%, behind the opposition conservatives, the AfD is tapping into voter fears about recession, migration and the green transition, say analysts. It even plans to nominate a chancellor candidate in the 2025 federal election.
While far-right parties have gained ground around Europe, the strength of the AfD is particularly sensitive in Germany due to the country's Nazi past.
The President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, expressed deep shock.
"This is a watershed that this country's democratic political forces cannot simply accept," he told RND media.
Particularly strong in the former Communist East, polls suggest the party may win three eastern state votes next year.
A clear victory for the AfD's Robert Sesselmann in the district, which has a population of only around 56,000 people, sends a signal to Berlin, say analysts, especially as all other parties in Sonneberg joined forces in a front against him.
Sesselmann was forced into a run-off against a conservative candidate after a vote two weeks ago. The conservative candidate won 47.2% on Sunday.
The party opposes economic sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine war and disputes that human activity is a cause of climate change.
The domestic intelligence agency said this month that far-right extremism posed the biggest threat to democracy in Germany and warned voters about backing the AfD.
Formed a decade ago as an anti-euro party, its popularity surged after the 2015 migrant crisis and it entered parliament in 2017, becoming the official opposition.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germanys-far-right-afd-wins-vote-lead-district-first-time-2023-06-25/
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Particularly strong in the former Communist East
Standardna podmetacina. Pravilno bi bilo "in the de-communized East", jer valjda je bitno sta su danas, a ne sta su nekad bili, ako su bili.
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Exit polls points to huge victory for New Democracy and extreme-right Spartans party (backed by jailed Golden Dawn spox) entering Parliament. Several fringe parties on the cusp. #Greece #elections pic.twitter.com/q3qnxGSsZ0
— Niki Kitsantonis (@NikiKitsantonis) June 25, 2023
BREAKING: The ethnonationalist party 'Spartans' is set to enter the Greek Parliament for the first time with 4-6%, according to the country's official election poll.
— European Insider (@Europa_Insider) June 25, 2023
Greek Orthodox theocratic party Niki is also expected to cross the threshold for the first time (2-4%). pic.twitter.com/fVY9zJlrEG
The far right could have three parties in the Greek parliament, with new party Spartans (the furthest right here) surging after not even running last month. Abysmal for Syriza pic.twitter.com/e2VeaBW9kw
— David Broder (@broderly) June 25, 2023
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Дакле, волео бих да се ЈСД Партизан угаси, али не и да сви (или било који) гробар умре.
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EU enlargement is and remains dead. After Russia’s newest war on some rhetorical changes occurred. But what changed in substance? While enlargement may resurrect one day, ideas for now are needed. One is slowly gaining ground. most popular party, the CDU, has adopted it.
— Michael Martens (@Andric1961) June 27, 2023
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ja se rukovodim logikom gvozdenih determinizama
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"Oni kroz mene gledaju u vas! Oni kroz njega gledaju u vas! Oni kroz vas gledaju u mene... i u sve nas."
Dragoslav Bokan, Novi putevi oftalmologije
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Nisam došao do sitnih slova.
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no, i za ovaj predloženi nivo integracije bilo bi neophodno puno priznanje Kosova. znači ne "just a tip" priznavanje koje trenutno radimo nego aaa sve, UN, ambasade itd.
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doći do tačke zrelosti za jedinstveno tržište je ispuniti tipa 90% uslova vladavine prava inače (plus gomila svega drugog), a ovamo ne dobijaš glavni deo kolača, ni političko predstavljanje ni budžetsku participaciju/kohezione fondove.
plus, za nas su oba puta podjednako nedostižna u sadašnjem stanju stvari. tako da je to igranka za delić njihove publike.
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ja se rukovodim logikom gvozdenih determinizama
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"Oni kroz mene gledaju u vas! Oni kroz njega gledaju u vas! Oni kroz vas gledaju u mene... i u sve nas."
Dragoslav Bokan, Novi putevi oftalmologije