EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance
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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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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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The Future of EU Leadership in the Car Industry: Still Global
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityAutomotive is Europe’s key export industry, an important contributor to the EU economy, from balance of payments to employment, and a...
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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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Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: Time to Go Back to the Drawing Board
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThis Policy Brief takes stock of the global and European trade and carbon-emission effects from CBAM. It argues that the current design of the CBAM...
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What does Emily in Paris say about the “Netflix quota” and the “Netflix tax”?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyWhen the Netflix series Emily in Paris was released in October 2020, it was widely watched among audiences around the world. In its first week, it...
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From SMEs to Unicorns: What Role for Trade, Standards and New Tech?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Lucian CernatThe global economy has been shaped by important, disruptive technological changes in recent years. Many of these technologies have been instrumental...
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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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Taxing Digital Services – Compensating for the Loss of Competitiveness
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Digital Trade Estimates Project EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecuritySeveral countries around the world have implemented a tax on digital services, commonly called Digital Services Tax (DST). This policy brief takes a...
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We Need to Talk Trade and Technology!
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Lucian Cernat“It’s May 3, 2021. Don’t forget to upgrade the embedded software in your shoes before you go for a run!” This may sound like a commercial...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Taking Stock of Europe’s New Trade Policy Strategy
By: Fredrik ErixonThis Policy Brief takes stock of the EU Trade Policy Review – the Commission’s proposed strategy for trade. Despite appearances, the Review...