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Die Welt publishes an article on The 2017 Euro Plus Monitor: Into a Higher Gear, analysing the results for Germany and the eurozone as a whole. The article warns that complacency is the biggest risk for the German economy, based on the results presented in the report, which is published every year by Berenberg and the Lisbon Council.

ERT, the Greek national TV broadcaster, reports on the country’s performance in The Euro Plus Monitor September 2017 Update. The study, published by the Lisbon Council and Berenberg, ranks Greece first in the adjustment progress indicator.

Huffington Post publishes an analysis on A New Framework for Free Movement of Data in the Digital Age: Making Europe a Data Economy, a policy brief by Paul Hofheinz, president and David Osimo, director of research at the Lisbon Council. The article concludes, “the paper provides a nice contribution to what is a growing volume of works published around data and its applications.”

In this guest post in Günther Oettinger’s blog, Karen Boers, co-founder and CEO of Startups.be and European Startup Network, argues that power movements are key for startups to be heard.

In a blog post on the new Start-Ups and Scale-Ups Initiative by the European Commission, Günther Oettinger, European commissioner for digital economy and society, writes: “Based on input from the startup community, and not least from the Scale Up manifesto, the Commission today presents a ‘Startup and scale up initiative’…I recommend you read the manifesto for inspiration, comment on it and spread its messages to governments, the private sector, academia or startup founders.”