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Three Systems, Three Theories of Power: Germany, the UK, and the US Take Three Incompatible Approaches to Regulating AI

Comparative analysis: Germany’s KI-MIG under the EU AI Act vs. the UK’s regulator-led, legislation-free approach vs. the US federal-state fight over who even gets to regulate AI at all Executive Summary The same underlying problem, regulating a fast-moving, borderless technology, has produced three fundamentally different theories of where that regulatory authority should sit. Germany’s answer […]

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One Overhaul, Two Tracks: Germany Splits Its Asylum Reform in Two, the UK Does It in One Bill, and Both Are Now in Court (or Close to It)

Comparative analysis: Germany’s GEAS-Anpassungsgesetz and Sichere-Herkunftsstaaten-Gesetz vs. the UK’s Immigration and Asylum Bill Executive Summary In the space of eight months, Germany enacted two separate asylum-law overhauls and the UK advanced one large one; this time, all three have either passed or are actively moving through the legislative process, rather than stalling out. Germany’s Gesetz […]

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A Tale of Two VAT Cuts: How Germany and the UK Are Each Failing to Lower Household Energy Taxes

Comparative analysis: Germany’s Gas- und Wärme-Umsatzsteuersenkungsgesetz vs. the UK’s Domestic Energy (Value Added Tax) Bill Executive Summary In June 2026, both the German Bundestag and the UK Parliament were, coincidentally, considering legislation to cut value-added tax on household energy. Germany’s Gesetz zur dauerhaften Ermäßigung der Umsatzsteuer auf Gas und Wärme (GESTA D045) proposed permanently lowering […]

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