Incoming! ....more 🇺🇲 US export restrictions for 🇳🇱 #ASML and 🇯🇵 Japanese tech firms (But Tokyo and The Hague will do their best to argue it was a collective decision) US and Japan near deal to curb chip technology exports to China - on.ft.com/4gsjQzg via Financial Times

🔥 Scoop! - Outgoing EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager warns against weakening anti-trust rules and opening “Pandora’s Box” of M&A regulations, as her successor is appointed with a call to shake up merger rules to create European champions ft.com/content/e89ddf… @ft w Javier Espinoza

Why Europe will not catch up with the US on.ft.com/3MVTdFj

Listen to my exclusive interview with competition chief Margrethe Vestager (quite possibly our last one as she is stepping down). She warned that a softening of the merger rules could open a “Pandora’s box” as pressure mounts to allow European champions. ft.com/content/fc09a0…

NEW: How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law For decades, Palestinian villagers say violent settlers have attacked locals and damaged property. Now some of these same settlers have been given the powers of the state. Thread ig.ft.com/west-bank/

Janan Ganesh in bracing form this morning - on why Europe will not catch up with the US. "The US has been deplorably negligent on the report front. Yet here we are" ft.com/content/298008…

"Our job is to fix the large problems for Europeans, and they don’t care at all about small politics and the things unfortunately we preoccupy ourselves with too much." Wopke Hoekstra on the new commission w/ Andrew Bounds ft.com/content/8eaefb…

End of an era. Gutted to have to announce this today. Proud of what UK in a Changing Europe has achieved and very grateful to all those who have worked with us ukandeu.ac.uk/announcement/s…

Wow. This seems incredibly retrograde step, given the constant struggle for fact-based analysis in public debate on Europe. UKICE needed now more than ever.

The week’s delay in announcing the new commission cost Ursula von der Leyen a lot of headlines. The German press full of Merz running for chancellor and the Dutch had a budget. Anywhere else distracted?

EU's tech underperformance is due to European businesses struggling to grow and invest. From 2014-2019, large EU companies were 20% less profitable, had 40% less revenue growth, and spent 40% less on R&D compared to US counterparts. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/3r0O2N1

Solar-panel maker Meyer Burger to cut fifth of its workforce on.ft.com/3TAaE1Z

The EU is considering extending its sanctions regime to include European companies' subsidiaries abroad, who are selling sensitive goods to Russia ft.com/content/4f3d6a… via @ft

Why the EU is lagging, what the EU needs to do about it — and why, in the end, the EU will struggle to implement the necessary reforms. Another brilliant piece by Martin Wolf on Draghi’s report on EU competitiveness.

Two scoops in today’s Europe Express including Ursula von der Leyen appointing ex Greens coleader Philippe Lamberts as an advisor to build bridges with civil society, industry (and the Greens!). Plus Chinese EV tariffs Henry Foy Laura Dubois on.ft.com/47A9eus via @financialtimes

We’re increasingly similar to Xi’s China in terms of governance (not ideology): A President with no political capital relies on many provinces, party fractions & princelings who need jobs to forge an alliance that survives a 5yr term. But don’t forget: Governance ≠ control.

Some might think they are entitled to since they pay a quarter of the bills!!

Required reading for Maroš Šefčovič🇪🇺 the new EU trade and economic security commissioner - from Alan Beattie ft.com/content/a743cd… via @ft

The new Brussels Effect. 1 Vote for a law to ban stuff. 2 Realise you need the stuff and you have alienated the entire world. 3 Call for the"bureaucratic monster" to be delayed eppgroup.eu/s/en0f2 via EPP Group

S&D want to change the title during the hearings...