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Competitiveness & Innovation

Cutting Red Tape, Preserving Standards: Rethinking the EU’s Omnibus Agenda

NATO allies are expected to adopt a new defence spending target of 5% of GDP at the upcoming The Hague […]

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Author Claudia-Dominique Geiser
1. October 2025
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Member of the Executive Board

Daniela Schwarzer

Daniela Schwarzer has been a member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board since May 2023. She is also an honorary professor of political science at Freie Universität Berlin and a senior fellow a...
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Lucas Guttenberg

Lucas Guttenberg heads our Europe programme as its Director. His own research focuses on the EU budget, EU economic and fiscal policy coordination, Germany's role in the EU and the Franco-German relat...
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Malte Zabel

Malte Zabel is an EU expert and Director of the Europe’s Future Program at the Bertelsmann Stiftung. In this role, he leads the program’s cross-cutting outreach initiatives and oversees projects aimed...
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