Luuk Schmitz

portrait of Luuk Schmitz

Luuk Schmitz is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies since October 2023. In the same month, he received his doctorate in political and social science from the European University Institute. Luuk’s research deals with the politics and political economy of EU trade and industrial policies, especially in light of […]

Di Carlo, D., & Schmitz, L. (2023). Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market. Journal of European Public Policy, 30(10), 2063–2096.

Abstract: Within Europe’s regulatory state, industrial policy has largely remained within national governments’ remit. Yet, a plethora of new supra- and cross-national industrial policy initiatives have recently emerged whereby the Commission proactively engages in pan-European activities to foster innovation and economic development. This article brings the ‘Developmental Network States’ (DNS) literature into dialogue with EU […]