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Lorenzo Diez Picazo

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Jorge Tamames @jorgetamames.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“If Spain aspires to convince its partners of the strategic risks at stake, analytical clarity is indispensable.” Must-read from @ignacio-molina.bsky.social and @pmklose.bsky.social, highlighting the flawed EU response to the crisis but also Madrid's missteps: ip-quarterly.com/en/ceuta-cri...
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In the Ceuta Crisis, Both Spain and the EU Need to Do Better
Spain’s EU partners have failed the country in an acute crisis. It is now up to Madrid and Brussels to take concrete steps to make Europe’s southern flank more secure.
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 21/06/2026
1/ Good interview with John Minnich on the history of China's technology transfer policies and what western governments might learn from them today. A few takeaways: www.ft.com/content/6f53...
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 11/06/2026
A 50 percent increase since 2020. euobserver.com/221065/corpo...
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The @pkrugman.bsky.social and @lugaricano.bsky.social debate centres on whether Europe's relative position depends on how productivity is measured. Using industry-level data, I break the gap down into its sectoral and capital components to see what is driving it. substack.com/@andreistere...
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Europe's Productivity Debate Needs Better Data
Krugman is right that Europe's relative living standards have held up better than the decline narrative suggests. His critics are right that America has built a lead in intangible capital and tech.
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Europe is obsessed with Chinese industrial domination. But the more seriously I take the "China is winning" argument, the less sense China's endgame seems to make If European industry collapses, demand for Chinese exports collapses with it. My latest: brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/chinas-gro...
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China's Growth Model Has No Endgame
The European debate about China is obsessed with production. It spends remarkably little time thinking about demand.
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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 18/05/2026
Le déficit fiscal russe a doublé en janvier-avril par rapport à 2025 et les réserves liquides du fonds souverain ne représentent plus que trois mois de déficit - pour @lemonde.fr j'analyse pourquoi la Russie n'est pas le grand gagnant annoncé de la guerre en Iran www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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Agathe Demarais, économiste : « La hausse du cours du pétrole ne réglera pas les difficultés économiques de la Russie, car ses réserves s’épuisent »
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », la chercheuse explique que le pays est bloqué par des difficultés budgétaires, la limitation de ses capacités de production d’or noir et une pénurie de main-d’œ...
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Kiel Institut @kiel.institute · 12/02/2026
The bulk of additional financial and humanitarian aid is now provided through EU institutions and their mechanisms. The share of EU-level financial and humanitarian aid allocations grew from around 50 percent in 2022 to almost 90 percent in 2025 👇
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
EU Leaders meet tomorrow to discuss measures to lift Europe's anaemic growth rate. But the summit risks turning into a nothing burger. EU Leaders have cherry-picked a macroeconomically meaningless simplification agenda from the Draghi report New oped. 1/ www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Europe is chasing the wrong fix for its growth crisis
The continent’s old growth model no longer works in today’s world. And EU leaders need a plan that matches the scale of this shift.
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
There we have it, the first price undertaking deal in the EU-China EV saga The European Commission has just accepted a tightly controlled price undertaking for one Chinese‑built VW Group EV model – the CUPRA Tavascan – instead of applying full countervailing duties.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is very cool - showing how countries might be transitioning from the primordial soup of bioenergy to the sunlit uplands of electricity via the trough of fossil. A simplification, of course, but what a visual! claude.ai/public/artif...
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Global Energy Transition Ternary Chart 1971–2040
Interactive ternary diagram visualizing energy mix shifts across 20 countries, showing fossil fuel, biomass, and electricity trends from 1971 to 2040 with projections.
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Lorenzo Diez Picazo @lorenzodzpcz.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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The American Toll Booth and the European Industrial Complex
Europe's Problem Isn’t Just Trump. It’s What America Became.
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
My message to Ursula von der Leyen in The Guardian this morning: America’s bet on AI is now so gigantic that every MAGA voter’s pension is bound to the bubble’s precarious survival. If she grabs Trump where it hurts, Europe will win this fight. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is Europe's secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan
Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him, says the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ Johnny Ryan
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Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
A new IMF study shows trade surpluses tend to raise incomes in surplus countries and lower them in deficit countries. doi.org/10.5089/9798...
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...
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How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Adam Przeworski.
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Bruegel @bruegel.org · 03/09/2025
📊 NEW Dataset: European Clean Tech Tracker This resource covers: 🔋 Batteries, 🚗 Electric vehicles,🔌 Grids, ♨️ Heat pumps, 💧Hydro, ☢️ Nuclear, ☀️ Solar and 🍃 Wind 🖊️ @mariejuge.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social, @bmcwilliams.bsky.social and @tagliapietra.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/HjhZay5
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 09/08/2025
Yet another cheap @economist.com Charlemagne column. Inaccurate and dis-informative. This time on @eui-eu.bsky.social
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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
New Capitalism II: Compositional vs income inequality Are all class-based societies unequal? branko2f7.substack.com/p/new-capita...
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New Capitalism II: Compositional vs income inequality
Are all class-based societies unequal?
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Eva Belmonte @belmonte.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Hemos publicado este artículo hablando de qué ha fallado en el caso Montoro pero, sobre todo, de qué reformas podrían, como mínimo, poner muy difícil una captura del estado de estos niveles. Pero reformas de verdad, no maquillaje. civio.es/novedades/20...
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Las brechas del sistema que permiten casos como el de Montoro
Sin una Ley de transparencia de los lobbies valiente, que establezca controles independientes, un régimen sancionador robusto y la transparencia de todo el proceso de creación de las normas, es imposi...
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Agenda Pública @agendapublica.es · 18/07/2025
🇪🇸 Aunque el balance final no tiene por qué ser negativo, exigirá "un cambio de mentalidad" para que la administración y las empresas españolas compitan por los nuevos fondos europeos. Un análisis de Bernardo de Miguel. 🔗
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Los nuevos presupuestos de la UE obligan a España a replantear la inversión pública
El proyecto de presupuestos de la UE para 2028-2034 obligará a España a refinar su gasto público para competir por los nuevos fondos de innovacióN.
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Civio @civio.es · 09/07/2025
El Gobierno presenta su Plan #Anticorrupción, pero ¿es una estrategia seria o política performativa? Lo hemos analizado y vemos un patrón claro: medidas recicladas y muchas carencias estructurales. Aquí lo razonamos: 🔗 civio.es/novedades/20...
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El Plan Estatal de Lucha contra la Corrupción, según Civio: medidas recicladas y carencias estructurales
La hoja de ruta anunciada por Sánchez despliega tácticas recurrentes que generan titulares pero no alteran el fondo. La lucha contra la corrupción en España sigue necesitando las mismas reformas estru...
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 26/06/2025
🇪🇸 How is wealth distributed in Spain ? This study, co-authored by G.A. Marrero @cmtneztt.bsky.social @juancpal.bsky.social & D.Petrov, is the first systematic analysis of regional wealth inequality in Spain. Key findings in 🧵[1/5] wid.world/news-article...
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New Spain Wealth Atlas: understanding regional wealth inequality in Spain - WID - World Inequality Database
New Spain Wealth Atlas: understanding regional wealth inequality in Spain The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an internation...
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Woah, that's a big ugy bill. And a recurring one, too. US Spending on Climate Damage Nears $1 Trillion Per Year The bill for impacts from rising temperatures exceeded 3% of US GDP, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg Intelligence. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Spending on Climate Damage Nears $1 Trillion Per Year
The bill for impacts from rising temperatures exceeded 3% of US GDP, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg Intelligence.
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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 18/06/2025
China has become world leader for using robots in factories • Number of robots per Chinese worker has more than doubled since '19, surpassing rates in Japan & Germany • Beijing's strategy entails integrating people-like robots in manufacturing, healthcare and hospitality
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 18/06/2025
In this NEW study, @javiersoria.bsky.social & @octaviomedina.bsky.social map intergenerational mobility across Spain — and what drives it. Key findings in this thread [1/7]🧵🇪🇸 wid.world/news-article/intergenerational-mobility-in-spain-geographic-analysis-and-causal-neighborhood-effects/
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Intergenerational Mobility in Spain: Geographic Analysis and Causal Neighborhood Effects - WID - World Inequality Database
Intergenerational Mobility in Spain: Geographic Analysis and Causal Neighborhood Effects The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by...
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 18/06/2025
Causal effects of growing up in a better neighborhood explain almost 60% of the geographic variation in upward mobility rates. [5/7]
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Javier Espinosa @javierespinosa.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Los opositores del régimen de los ayatolás son claros: “Esta guerra no nos ayuda” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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‘This War Is Not Helping Us’
Members of Iran’s opposition want change, and fear for their lives.
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Juan Luis Jiménez @juanluisjimenez.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Buen momento para recordar que la Comisión Europea instó a España a que la actividad de los lobbies sea transparente (sobra decir el porqué) y el Gobierno presentó en febrero un proyecto de Ley donde: ❌Se vigila a sí mismo. ❌Excluye a partidos políticos, sindicatos, (sigue)
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Francesc Trillas Jané @francesctrillas.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Great conversation between @pkrugman.bsky.social and @brankomilan.bsky.social about Branko's elephant and much more. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/global-ine...
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Global Inequality: Branko Milanovic
Talking with the guy down the hall
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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I have a new short piece in Foreign Affairs with @profmichaelross.bsky.social arguing that "the United States’ emergence as the world’s leading oil and gas producer is a critical and often neglected element of today’s global disorder." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Petrostate America
The downsides of energy independence.
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 12/06/2025
The United States’ transition into the world’s leading exporter of oil and gas also “redefined Washington’s global role,” write‪ @profmichaelross.bsky.social and @erikvoeten.bsky.social‬. “Now, like other top oil exporters, the country has lost its long-term interest in international cooperation.”
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Petrostate America
The downsides of energy independence.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Folks, CBO estimate of the distributional effect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is out: www.cbo.gov/system/files... It's grotesque
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10/06/2025
Sam Altman posted this essay in the last hour. I’m someone who believes AI is a genuinely transformative technology – at least the biggest since the internet. But I read this and it just comes across as either delusional or a bizarre, fantastical sales pitch. I can’t work out which is worse.
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The Gentle Singularity
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots...
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CEPS @ceps.eu · 06/06/2025
🔍 In her new Explainer, @lauranurski.bsky.social challenges the headlines claiming that AI will take over all entry-level jobs. 🧑‍💻 Through new evidence, she deconstructs this deterministic view and calls for a reconceptualisation of our labour markets. READ HERE 👉 bit.ly/4kDSh7V
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