EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance
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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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Government and Coronavirus
By: David HenigI’m not a coronavirus expert. Trade, economics and politics is my field. I had to look up the spelling of epidemiologist for this article and I’m...
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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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A European Industrial Policy for Services: The Single Market
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyIndustrial policy is back on the European agenda. Inside the European Commission headquarters, policy makers are fiercely discussing the instruments,...
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Market Structures in Services
Research Areas: Digital Trade Estimates Project EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyServices have long been thought to suffer from a productivity problem. In fact, there is a long-standing concern that services add little to the...
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NGO Lobbying – How to Ensure Accountability and Transparency at the EU Level
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceOn January 22, the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and ECIPE hosted a seminar on the accountability and transparency of the...
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4 Million Tonnes Additional CO2 due to Proposed EU Cabotage Laws in Mobility Package
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Matthias BauerIn December 2019, after several years of curious negotiations, EU policymakers have agreed on a hazardous consensus on new rules for the EU’s...
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The Entrepreneurial Society – A Reform Strategy for the European Union
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms Project Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: João CarvalhoOn November 26, Niklas Elert, an economics scholar at the Swedish Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) presented 'The Entrepreneurial...
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UK Election 2019 – What it Means for Brexit and Future UK-EU Relations
By: David HenigIntroduction The result of the UK General Election means that the UK will leave the EU at the end of January 2020, ending at least four years of...
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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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EU Freight Cabotage: Will France Manage to Kick Eastern Europe out of the EU’s Single Market?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Matthias BauerCurrent EU law severely restricts the transport of goods within a Member State by a truck operator from a foreign EU country. What is known as...