Insights
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Justice Must Not Be for Sale: The Case of Mass Litigation
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceTags: mass litigationBy: Oscar GuineaThis blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 13th of April 2025. The original article can be found here. Julia Roberts won...
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Let Others Invent, Let Others Defend Us!
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Oscar GuineaThis blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 16th of March 2025. The original article can be found here. In an era of...
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Sorry, Mr Draghi, but EU Exports are not a Drain on Competitiveness
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIn a recent article in the Financial Times, Mario Draghi argues that the EU’s level of trade openness is unusually high and, in effect, a problem....
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Europe’s Economic Security in Services
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityEconomic security reached the Mount Olympus of European buzzwords when Maroš Šefčovič was appointed EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic...
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Beyond Fear: The EU-Mercosur Agreement and European Agriculture
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance EU-Mercosur Project Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Latin America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 19th of January 2025 with María C. Latorre and Isabel Pérez del Puerto. The...
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Action and Reaction in International Trade
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 24th of November 2024 with Isabel Pérez del Puerto. The original article can be...
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Rules Without End: EU’s Reluctance to Let Go of Regulation
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe goal is to increase competitiveness, and for that, Europe needs to reduce the volume of regulation and improve its quality. This is one of the...
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Webinar Summary: Waiting for Draghi – Defining Europe’s Productivity Problem
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe webinar "Waiting for Draghi – Defining Europe’s Productivity Problem" featured insightful discussions from Judith Arnal, Senior Research...
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The European Productivity Slowdown in a Global Context
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe decline in EU competitiveness is certain to be a key issue for European policymakers over the next five years. This concern is well-founded. The...
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Five Challenges for Five Decisive Years in Europe
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Russia and EurasiaThis blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 9th of June 2024 with Isabel Pérez del Puerto. The original article can be found...
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Grumbling in the Fields: EU Agriculture and Trade
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Latin America North America Trade, Globalisation and Security*The views expressed herein are individual to the author and do not represent any official position European farmers have taken their tractors to the...
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The Value of Values
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceThis blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 10th of March 2024 with Isabel Pérez del Puerto. The original article can be...