Insights
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Europe Cannot Reindustrialise Its Way to the Future
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyEurope wants its factories back. From Brussels to national capitals, policymakers are trying to reverse decades of deindustrialisation and restore...
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Why China’s Record Trade Surplus can’t be Blamed on US Restrictions
This op-ed originally appeared in het Financieele Dagblad. As China’s record-breaking trade surplus exceeded $1 trillion this year, it...
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Why It’s Time to Mind Europe’s Services Gap
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalSpeaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, President Trump told Europe it was “not heading in the right direction”. The line was...
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Europe’s Real Trade Weapon Is Not Tariffs on Goods
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityOver the weekend, President Donald Trump’s anger at Europe flared once again. The United States announced its intention to impose a 10 per cent...
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Band-Aids on Bureaucracy: Why GDPR Reform Isn’t Enough
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy South Asia and OceaniaSeven may be a divine number, but even sacred things deserve scrutiny. It took the EU seven years to begin rethinking its regulatory holy grail: the...
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Von der Leyen Future Economic Legacy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyIn her State of the Union address, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen touched on nearly every aspect of European life, including the economy....
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Germany’s Industry Isn’t in Decline, It’s Changing
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyGermany's industry is in turmoil. Last year’s headlines about mass layoffs by German industrial giants like Volkswagen, Thyssenkrupp, BASF, and...
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Digital Globalisation, Digital Trade Policy, and the Role of Developing Countries
Research Areas: Africa Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Latin America Russia and Eurasia South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityDigital trade has grown very fast in recent years, not least because of Covid-19 and its push to do online business. The pandemic, according to one...
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Digital Sovereignty Revisited
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyIn a recent LinkedIn post, my colleague Hosuk Lee-Makiyama asked why so many policymakers in Europe are concerned with digital sovereignty when the...
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Data Should be Part of the Discussions in Pittsburgh
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North AmericaToday in Pittsburgh, the newly created EU-US Trade and Tech Council (TCC) holds its first meeting. The stakes are high and according to the official...
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UK Joining the CPTPP: In Search of the Economic Benefits in Services
Research Areas: Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and Security UK Trade Policy ProjectThe UK has formally declared the intention to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, also known as the CPTPP...
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Re-Globalisation
Tags: globalisationGlobalisation is in trouble. Ever since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008, global trade has been unable to return to its preceding upward...