Insights
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The Critical Importance of the Single Market for Europe’s Global Trade Performance
By: Lucian CernatThe Single Market just turned 30. It is one of the EU’s greatest achievements and the success of the Single Market is built on the fundamental...
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The Urban Legend of the EU’s Digital Economy: Where Do We Go From Here?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIt is not strange to think that the digital economy is made by and for American companies. Google is the window to the Internet, we buy through...
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Go Back to the Drawing Board! The Commission’s Leaked Patent Reform Would Be Bad for Technological Development and Europe
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP ProjectBy: Fredrik ErixonI have finally got around to reading the leaked draft proposal by the European Commission to overhaul the system of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)...
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Ten Aspects of the UK-EU Deal on Northern Ireland
By: David HenigWhen it comes to Northern Ireland, there is rarely a single story. Complexities of post-Brexit trading arrangements were overlaid on existing...
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EU-Russia Trade Since the Start of the War – Recoupling for Some, Expansion for Others
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Russia and Eurasia Trade, Globalisation and SecurityRussia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was met with calls for economically alienating Russia. Countries were encouraged to impose sanctions,...
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Europe Against the Machine
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThis piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto. “Never send a human to do a machine's job” said Agent Smith in The Matrix as he...
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Competitive and Innovative: The Winning Europe That We Need
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalThis piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development. The competitiveness of a...
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2023 Will Be a Defining Year for Brexit and Trade
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and Security UK Trade Policy ProjectBy: David HenigNotwithstanding endless discussions and early data, Brexit cannot yet be definitively declared a success or failure. Those who would point to trade...
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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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The Tech and Trade Council: An Accident Report
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityCo-authored with Robin Baker Introduction As we approach the third ministerial meeting of the Trade and Technology Council (TTC), transatlantic...
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Webinar Summary: Measuring the Economic Impacts of the EU’s Approach to Strategic Autonomy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Matthias BauerOn November 29, ECIPE hosted an expert discussion around the study’s launch by Frontier Economics, “Measuring the Impacts of the EU’s Approach...
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The Shared Pursuit of a Values-Based Globalisation
Tags: globalisationBy: Renata ZilliWestern liberal globalisation needs a reboot. Over the past years, the West and its institutions have distanced themselves from the outside world,...