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Increasing Systemic Legal Risks in the EU: The Economic Impacts of Changes to the EU’s Product Liability Legislation
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe EU’s Product Liability Directive (PLD) determines the rules for strict product liability in the EU. It establishes a framework in which...
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What is Wrong with Europe’s Shattered Single Market? – Lessons from Policy Fragmentation and Misdirected Approaches to EU Competition Policy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms Project Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerWhat is wrong with Europe’s Single Market? The brief answer to that question is that it does not really exist – it is unsingle. The Single...
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In Support of Market-Driven Standards
The EU published its new Standardisation Strategy in 2022. The strategy contains some good ideas to improve the way European standards are set....
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Building Resilience? The Cybersecurity, Economic & Trade Impacts of Cloud Immunity Requirements
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerEU Member States should call on the EU’s Cybersecurity Agency (ENISA) and the European Commission to abandon immunity requirements in the...
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The Impacts of EU Strategy Autonomy Policies – A Primer for Member States
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Matthias BauerEU governments should be much more sceptical and critical of the EU’s strategic autonomy agenda and the new polices intended to achieve the EU’s...
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The EU Digital Markets Act: Assessing the Quality of Regulation
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an opportunity to prevent and remedy anti-competitive conduct by large digital platforms. If the Act is...
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Strategic Autonomy and Long-term Innovation Competitiveness: On the Importance of Intellectual Property Rights for the Production of High-Value Medicines in the EU
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalTags: competitiveness EU innovation intellectual property pharmaceutical industry strategic autonomyBy: Matthias BauerEurope’s political leaders have in recent months called for “European industrial autonomy”. Notions of dependency, sovereignty and resilience...
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Unintended and Undesired Consequences: The Impact of OECD Pillar I and II Proposals on Small Open Economies
Research Areas: Digital Trade Estimates Project Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Matthias BauerCorporate tax laws vary significantly between different jurisdictions. Over the past four decades, governments globally competed for business...
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Europas Streben nach Technologiesouveränität: Chancen und Risiken für Deutschland und die Europäische Union
In den vergangenen Monaten wurden von einigen führenden Europapolitikern Strategien zur Erreichung einer sog. „europäischen...
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Discrimination, Exclusion and Environmental Harm: Why EU Lawmakers Need to Ban Freight Transport Restrictions to Save the Single Market
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms Project Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerThe EU’s Mobility Package 1 legislative proposal was once intended to improve the working conditions of truck and small-van drivers in the EU....
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Europe’s Quest for Technology Sovereignty: Opportunities and Pitfalls
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital New Globalisation Trade, Globalisation and SecurityCovid-19 and its broader implications have highlighted the importance of Europe’s digital transformation to ensure Europeans’ social and economic...
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Investment Openness in Europe: Investment Screening and Implications for EU-China Investment Relations
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIn the context of the proposal to establish an EU investment screening framework and the ongoing negotiations of the EU-China investment agreement,...