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Online safety: the next wave of regulation

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Supersectors: lessons from Britain’s comparative advantages for a 2025 UK trade and industrial strategy

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Delivering Warm Homes: The plan for a Labour Government

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Accelerating the delivery of clean electricity: Five focus areas to deliver on the UK's Clean Energy Mission for 2030

How to build an "AI Continent": What the Commission's AI Continent Action Plan means for Europe

On this week's episode of Top in Tech, Adriana Capparelli, Director in our Tech, media and telecoms team is joined by Natasha Dixon, Senior Associate, to unpack the European Commission’s...

The Global Month Ahead: IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings, Navigating the UK Local Elections and Ukraine’s Defence Future

As we look ahead to April, host Sewar Quran is joined by Global Counsel colleagues from across the globe to discuss the UK local elections, the IMF World Bank Spring...

Online safety: the next wave of regulation

On this week's episode of Top in Tech, Megan Stagman is joined by Conan D'Arcy, Senior Practice Director, and Chris Levy, Head of Research and Insight, for a deep dive...

Online safety: the next wave of regulation

Of all the issues that have driven the “techlash” over the past decade, online safety and content moderation have proven the most emotive and durable, but also contested. This is...

Navigating the future of defence technology

In this episode of Top in Tech, Adriana Capparelli and Robyn Staveley discuss the recent surge in European defence spending, driven by rising geopolitical tensions and the ongoing conflict in...

The Global Month Ahead: China’s Two Sessions, the UK Spring Statement, Europe’s Defence Dilemma

As we head into March, host Sewar Quran is joined by Global Counsel colleagues across our offices to discuss China’s Two Sessions, the UK Spring Statement, and the evolving European...

Breaking Barriers: How data sharing can transform the fight against economic crime

On this bonus episode of Top in Tech, Conan D'Arcy is joined by Ellison Anne Williams, CEO of Enveil, and Harry Palmer, Associate Director at Global Counsel, to discuss the...

Serving customers, communities and planet a little better every day – a report setting out Tesco’s economic and social impact

Global Counsel acted as research partners for Tesco to produce a report and bespoke economic analysis outlining the economic and social impact of the UK’s largest retailer. Over the last...

'Simplification' and its complexities in EU tech policy

In this episode of Top in Tech, Adriana Capparelli and Jack Keevill discuss the new EU Commission Work Program, highlighting its focus on simplification, competitiveness, and security in response to...

Enabling digital efficiency: The opportunity for a more competitive and resilient energy transition

Global Counsel (GC) was commissioned by Cisco to develop a policy framework to guide governments in harnessing digitalisation as a tool to enable a more energy-efficient and energy-secure global economy...

The Politics of 2025: the view from Brussels

For companies and investors in Europe, 2024 saw a clear articulation of a new potential policy agenda: more focussed on the economy, including targeted deregulation; more coordination on defence procurement...

The Politics of 2025: the global economic outlook with David Skilling

In this special edition episode of the Global Month Ahead, host Isabelle Trick is joined by David Skilling, a Senior Adviser at Global Counsel and an expert on global economics...

The Politics of 2025: the view from Doha

2024 was an especially turbulent and eventful year for the Middle East, even by the region’s notoriously volatile standards. The attacks of October 7th proved a catalyst for a chain...

Will DeepSeek change the global approach to AI policy?

On this week's episode of Top in Tech, Directors Adriana Capparelli and Megan Stagman explore what DeepSeek means for questions of US AI supremacy, the efficacy of export restrictions, and...

The Global Month Ahead: Federal elections in Germany, African Union votes for new leadership, AI Action Summit in Paris

Ahead of a very busy February, co-hosts Isabelle Trick and Sewar Quran are joined by Global Counsel colleagues across our offices to discuss the federal election in Germany, the African...

Breaking barriers: how data sharing can transform the fight against economic crime

This paper was written by Harry Palmer and Fergus Cameron Watt, with input from Enveil who commissioned the report. It draws on insight from government, regulators, law enforcement and industry...

Supersectors: lessons from Britain’s comparative advantages for a 2025 UK trade and industrial strategy

When the new UK government set out its initial thinking for a future trade strategy in November 2024 it proposed to build that strategy on an assessment of the UK’s...

The Politics of 2025: the view from Berlin

Ahead of the 2025 federal elections in February, Germany is grappling with a complex set of challenges that threaten its economic prospects and political capacity to act. Germany’s reliance on...