Trade, Globalisation and Security
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A Global Agreement on Medical Equipment and Supplies to fight COVID-19
By: Oscar GuineaThe trade answer to the coronavirus crisis has been a mix of openness and protectionism. Countries have lowered import duties (examples here, here,...
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Coronavirus Does Not Mean the End of Globalisation
By: David HenigThe world of trade will change for ever. Globalisation is dead. Supply chains will become shorter, and less complex. The nation state is back. Except...
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Trade Policy and COVID-19: Openness and Cooperation in Times of a Pandemic
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms Project Trade, Globalisation and SecurityCovid-19 has hit the world very hard in general and some regions so far in particular (e.g. China, Europe, US) over the past three months. The deep...
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Globalisation After COVID-19
It is certain that the world will overcome the COVID-19 crisis, as much as it is certain that in the aftermath the world will look different with...
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A Global Effort to Win the War Against COVID-19
We are at war. But this war is different. There is no visible enemy, no border, no ideological divide. And yet, as in the past century’s conflicts,...
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Coronavirus and Trade – Reflecting Today’s Messy Globalisation
By: David HenigIntroduction The bravest prediction in the midst of a crisis is that nothing will change as a result. Typically at such times, the optimists hope...
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Trade Policy and the Fight Against Coronavirus
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe economic impact of the coronavirus or COVID-19 will be dramatic and long-lasting. Governments across the world have put in place extraordinary...
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The UK Up and Running in the WTO: How Fast, How Far Can It Go?
By: Stuart HarbinsonAfter Brexit, our attention to UK trade policy has focused mostly on future FTAs, and in particular trade negotiations between the UK and the...
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Three Challenges for the New EU Trade Commissioner
Now that he took office, no shortage of work awaits Mr Hogan, the new EU Trade Commissioner. We review some of his key challenges. ‘I always seem...
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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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Carbon Border Measures
By: Guest AuthorSandra Parthie, Head of Brussels Office at IW Köln, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft There seems to be renewed political appetite for a...
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The Eternal Sunshine of an Engineer’s Mind: Germany Looks to 5G Security as a Purely Technical Question
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe EU 5G Risk Assessment and the German proposal to amend the security catalogue both recognise that protection of end-users depends on two...