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Should the EU Pursue a Strategic Ginseng Policy? Trade Dependency in the Brave New World of Geopolitics
Political leaders all over the world are calling for strategic autonomy. The removal of critical trade dependencies has become a guiding principle...
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When the State Becomes the Only Buyer: Monopsony in China’s Public Procurement of Medical Technology
China’s centralised state procurement policies are moving the Chinese market of medical technologies in a monopsonistic direction. A monopsony...
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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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The Benefits of Intellectual Property Rights in EU Free Trade Agreements
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP Project Trade, Globalisation and SecurityKey Takeaway 1: What are Intellectual Property Rights and why do they matter? Intellectual Property gives the creator (e.g. an artist, a company...
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EU and Mercosur in the Twenty-First Century: Taking Stock of the Economic and Cultural Ties
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance EU-Mercosur Project Latin America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis policy brief examines the latest developments in the EU-Mercosur economic relationship and outlines the existing non-economic relationship in...
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China’s Public Procurement Protectionism and Europe’s Response: The Case of Medical Technology
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis paper concerns China’s market for medical technologies and how the Chinese state is assisting its own companies to gain greater sales at the...
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Globalisation Comes to the Rescue: How Dependency Makes Us More Resilient
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance New Globalisation Trade, Globalisation and SecurityA new consensus is growing across the European Union – and other parts of the world too: that globalisation has gone too far. The argument goes as...
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Learning to Love Trade Again
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: tradeWe are at the moment, the first in seventy-five years, where there is no international consensus in support of trade. Indeed, trade is unloved,...
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Standing Up for Competition: Market Concentration, Regulation, and Europe’s Quest for a New Industrial Policy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyAfter the failed merger of Alstom and Siemens – the two giants of Europe´s railway manufacturing sector – the French and the German governments...