EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance
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New Coalitions for Europe’s Digital Future – Building Capacity, Improving Performance
In Europe’s digital policy, digital managerialists, digital frontrunners, and digital convergers have emerged as coalitions among EU member states....
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Standard Essential Patents and the Quest for Faster Diffusion of Technology
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityStandard-essential patents (SEPs) have been critical to the ICT revolution. SEPs have allowed for the fast rates of innovation diffusion that the...
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Reforming Services: What Policies Warrant Attention?
Economic growth in the European Union has been low for more than a decade now. While some of the poor performance can be explained by the crisis, the...
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TTIP, the Revenant
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Edward BowlesEdward Bowles is a Member of the European Commission’s Advisory Group on TTIP, and writes this in a personal capacity. For those of...
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Europe’s Obesity Challenge
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Fredrik ErixonEurope is confronted by an obesity challenge. Rates of obesity have climbed fast over the past decades and estimates suggest that obesity rates will...
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The Trade Consequences of Brexit: How I See the Situation
By: Roderick AbbottThe trade consequences of Brexit are just one element of the overall withdrawal exercise to be triggered by a notification under Article 50 TEU....
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Unleashing Internal Data Flows in the EU: An Economic Assessment of Data Localisation Measures in the EU Member States
Forced data localisation measures are on the rise around the world, fragmenting the Internet and increasing costs for businesses and consumers....
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Manufacturing Discontent: The Rise to Power of Anti-TTIP Groups
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Matthias BauerOld beliefs, new symbols, new faces. In 2013, a small group of German green and left- wing activists, professional campaign NGOs and...
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Europe in the Trumpworld: EU Trade and Security Under the New US Executive
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe election of Trump into the Oval Office is much of a non-event for EU trade-policy detail, possibly even the TTIP: they have been deteriorating...
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Why Concluding CETA is so Important for the EU
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityPassions have been running high this week as the EU failed to get an agreement about signing off its trade deal with Canada, what is called CETA. As...
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Innovation and the Economics of Healthcare: The Case of Blood Cancer
By: Fredrik ErixonWhile innovation is central for the quality of healthcare and improving health outcomes, it is also a source of increasing costs for governments....
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Turning the Single Digital Market into a House of Cards? The European Local Content Quota on Netflix
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Korea Project Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: audiovisual industry audiovisual policy cultural industries Digital Single Market EU European CommissionOn May 25, 2016, the Commission proposed to amend two dozen articles of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (hereafter the “Directive”). One...