Insights
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How Did the GATT Respond to the Birth of the European Community?
Tags: GATTBy: Roderick AbbottA complex question covering signature of the Treaty of Rome, a Customs Union subject to specific GATT rules. It also raised the wider issue of how...
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Time Is Running Out to Address Trade Frictions. For Effective WTO Reform to Happen, the US, EU and China Need to Live Up to Their Responsibilities
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityAll three of the WTO’s functions - administering multilateral trade rules, serving as a forum for trade negotiations, and providing a mechanism to...
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The WTO is a Disaster. Really?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Roderick AbbottDear Mr President, I have heard that you called the World Trade Organisation (WTO) “a disaster for America”, and would like to suggest with...
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Brexit: Leaving the EU – What Lies Ahead?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Roderick AbbottThe current Brexit debate is mainly about the transition period which will probably follow the UK’s exit from the EU in March 2019. I say probably...
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From the General Agreement to the World Trade Organisation
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Roderick AbbottThis blog is about the gap between the old GATT mansion (Villa Bocage) and the modern WTO edifice (Centre William Rappard) – or to explain that...
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IN MEMORIAM – PETER SUTHERLAND
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: WTOBy: Roderick AbbottPeter died last Sunday in a hospital in Dublin, his home city and home country. He was aged 71. He had suffered a heart attack in September 2016,...
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After Florence: a Step Forward, but Whose Turn to Go Next?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceSo where do matters stand with the UK-EU negotiations for an orderly separation or withdrawal agreement? Three major events – the Lancaster House...
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Brexit – The Trade Agenda Moves One Step Further
By: Roderick AbbottIn a previous blog I described the UK trade agenda, the four principal areas where the UK will be losing trade access or trade rights and privileges...
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Brexit – the Trade Agenda: or Rights and Privileges that Will Be Lost and Will Have to Be Replaced*
By: Roderick AbbottThis note is written on the basis that exit from the EU entails some automatic loss of privileges, which can then be renegotiated with trade...
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Who Did not See the Migration Crisis Coming?
By: Roderick AbbottThis infographic documents the European migration crisis during 2015. In 2014 the migrant flow had been mainly from Africa through Libya across the...
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Did Western Civilisation Never Really Catch On?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Roderick AbbottOver the last seven days, as the FIFA story has unfolded, the famous dictum: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” has...
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Migration Seen From Brussels
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Roderick AbbottMuch talk and attention in recent weeks to the streams of migrants heading across the Mediterranean to Italy and Malta, and to the large numbers of...