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From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?
WARSAW: Russia’s crisis has mesmerized and monopolized European affairs recently. Too much so, as other issues facing Eastern Europe, particularly the inertia in securing Nato expansion, are being permitted to drift. That neglect may be dangerous, considering the stroppy nationalism espoused by Russia’s new premier, Yevgeny Primakov.
Soon, Poland will become a member of Nato. Talks to join the European Union are getting started. Two other postcommunist countries -- Hungary and the Czech Republic -- are in like positions.
Displays of doubt, fear, and ambivalence about Europe are, perhaps, not very strange. Afer all, "Euroscepticism" is a watchword in established EU members like Denmark and Britain. But the ways in which these doubts are voiced here in the east are often astonishing and unexpected, and tell us a lot about our politics.
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