07/09/2026
Introducing Maastricht Market Insights (MMI) 🧡
Over the past few weeks, we’ve had the honour of speaking with voices from academia, business, and finance for our new publication, Maastricht Market Insights (MMI) - a new format by Maastricht Student Consulting (MSC) connecting perspectives from business, economics, and politics around one central topic.
Our founding series, Europe’s Competitiveness Test, explores why European companies struggle to obtain the scale, capital, and integrated market access required to compete globally, and what that means for the next generation of entrepreneurs and leaders. 🇪🇺
🎙️For this first series, we spoke with:
Jesper Rangvid, Professor of Finance & Associate Dean of the E-MBA, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Dr. Wolfgang Bernhart, Senior Partner, Roland Berger
Anouk van Brug, Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe (VVD)
Carsten Brzeski, Global Head of Macro Research & Chief Eurozone Economist, ING Group.
We kick off with Dr. Wolfgang Bernhart, Senior Partner at Roland Berger, Automotive & Industrials, who reminds us that „if the strategy is flawed, no amount of good ex*****on will save you.“
Curious what he had to say about Europe’s position in the automotive and EV race, closing the cost gap with China on batteries, the capital versus ex*****on debate, and what mindset the next generation of leaders will need to reinvent the industry?
👉 Read the full interview now published on our LinkedIn page.
Stay tuned - more perspectives from this series are coming soon.