Insights
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The Buyer’s Market: How Vendor Exclusions and OPEN RAN Actually Affect Market Concentration
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyOur forthcoming policy brief on Open RAN explores the increasing politicisation of the 5G rollout around the world. In particular, the radio access...
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Blockchain for Trade: The Next Gold Standard or the Fool’s Gold?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Lucian CernatIn the movie “Gold”, a small, struggling mining entrepreneur looking for gold goes from bankruptcy to a 6 billion dollar mining empire, and then...
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Preparing for COVID-20
By: Oscar GuineaIf there were to be another pandemic, what would you have done differently? This question should be at the front of any policy-maker. Covid-19 has...
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Calls for Chinese-Style Tech Industrial Policy Won’t Make Europe More Digital Sovereign
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerA leaked draft “Joint Declaration” reveals plans for an EU industrial policy in the cloud and data sector. The proposal is floated...
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What’s the Deal with No-Deal? EU and UK Trade Dependency
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and Security UK Trade Policy ProjectBy: Oscar GuineaThe EU and the UK continue to negotiate a free trade agreement. Nonetheless, the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is being seriously considered in...
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Will the U.S. Stance on Chinese Telecom Equipment Change?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North AmericaBy: Guest AuthorBy Jerker Hellström, Director of the Swedish Center for China Studies.* With two months left until election day in the U.S., the two...
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The UK Traps Itself in EU Relationship Problems
By: David HenigThe Brexit saga keeps going, now reaching the point where the UK government has stated that the Withdrawal Agreement reached in October, which became...
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ECIPE Summer Book List
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: João CarvalhoWe asked ECIPE experts to help compile a list of books to read over the summer. The goal was to recommend literature that helps readers make sense of...
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A Biden Win Won’t Fix the World Trade System
By: David HenigA US Presidential election always exerts quite a hold on the political world’s attention, but not often with personal stakes as high as they seem...
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On Ants, Dinosaurs, and How to Survive a Trade Apocalypse
Palaeontologists have long recognised that unexpected but hugely devastating events can change life on Earth forever. A common theory suggests that a...
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Europe’s Dependency on China?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe 22nd EU-China Summit held virtually this week, was the first for the new EU Commission. The meeting takes place against...
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EU Trade Policy for a Post-COVID World
By: Natalia MacyraOn May 28, ECIPE together with TradeExperettes, and Women in Trade Network hosted a webinar on EU trade policy after Covid-19. Sabine Weyand...