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A Multilateral Legal Assistance Protocol: Preventing Fragmentation and Re-territorialisation of the Internet
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging TechnologiesIneffectual legal-assistance cooperation increasingly prompts governments to apply laws extraterritorially or to force data localisation, with dire...
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Is E-commerce Really the Threat to European Way of Life – or did Domestic Populism Trump the Single Market?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalLast week, France introduced a controversial law specifically designed to cripple Amazon to support physical bookstores. Italy is about to force...
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A Fibre-Rich Diet for Europe: Is the EU’s Next Generation Access Strategy Compromising on Competition?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyGiven the unsatisfactory deployment of fibre based Next Generation Access (NGAs) networks in the EU, the European Commission proposes in a draft...
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A EU-Taiwan Trade Accord from EU Member States Perspective: Rebalancing regional trade
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityFollowing an FTA with Korea, the EU now takes up the ambitious task of negotiating an FTA with Japan. Inarguably, ‘big’ FTAs are the way forward...
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Whither Global Rules for the Internet? The implications of the World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT) for international trade
Tags: digital economy global trade Information and Communications Technology regulation telecommunications WTOThe International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will be renegotiating its binding rules, known as the International Telecommunication Regulations...
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Upholding Europe’s Mandate on Trade: The EU-Japan FTA
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis paper concerns Europe’s ability to continue its trade strategy into large scale FTAs that are necessary to sustain EU industrial capacities....
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The International Services Agreement (ISA) – From the European Vantage Point
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityServices liberalisation has perhaps suffered from the deadlock of the WTO more than any other area of trade. As the discussions of a potential...
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FTAs and the Crisis in the European Car Industry
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe crisis-struck EU finds it increasingly difficult to engage in trade negotiations with large-sized economies that would have a meaningful impact...
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FUTURE-PROOFING WORLD TRADE IN TECHNOLOGY: Turning the WTO IT Agreement (ITA) into the International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA)
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Far East South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityDespite being an agreement designed for the fastest developing sectors, the signatories of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in the World...
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Chasing Paper Tigers – Need for Caution and Priorities in EU Countervailing Duties (CVDs)
A new trade war is looming as the EU is now embarking on its first countervailing duty (CVD) against Chinese subsidies over coated fine paper. As...
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Digital Authoritarianism: Human Rights, Geopolitics and Commerce
Online censorship is about to take centre stage in the campaign to improve conditions for human rights, cyber security and commercial freedom of...
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Securing Korea’s Prosperity in the Next Century: An analysis of the Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityKorea is a country at cross-roads. As a small but innovative economy, it has always depended on free trade for growth. But as it faces competition...