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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

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...

Will Europe stand up for its social media rules?

On this week's episode of Top in Tech, Ana Gradinaru, Director and Jack Keevill, Associate Director in our Brussels office explore the recent developments surrounding social media regulation in the...

The Politics of 2025: the view from London

If 2024 was the year the British people delivered a scathing verdict on the way the country was run, 2025 is the year British politicians try to work out what...

The Politics of 2025: the view from Washington, DC

January 2025 sees the seating of a new US Congress and Donald Trump’s return to the White House. President Trump and his advisers have outlined – in varying degrees of...

What will 2025 bring for tech regulation?

This week on Top in Tech, Director Megan Stagman and Senior Practice Director Conan D'Arcy predict what we should expect as the biggest global tech policy trends for 2025. They...

The Global Month Ahead: Trump's second term begins, defence policy in the EU, The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos

In our first episode of 2025, Isabelle Trick is joined by Global Counsel colleagues across our offices to discuss Donald Trump’s second term, developments in EU defence policy, and the...

Geoeconomics in everyday business: How German SMEs can meet global challenges

Our world is becoming increasingly fragmented. This new geo-economic reality inevitably impacts German SMEs. Sometimes entire business models are at stake if supply chains are disrupted or access to important...