Insights
-
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...
-
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,...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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,...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...