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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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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Of Debt and Disease.
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Latin America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityA street pharmacy in Tanzania (from author’s own archives) Debt relief is not a panacea to tackle the pandemic in the developing countries In midst...
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The Eternal Sunshine of an Engineer’s Mind: Germany Looks to 5G Security as a Purely Technical Question
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe EU 5G Risk Assessment and the German proposal to amend the security catalogue both recognise that protection of end-users depends on two...
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5G: What We Talk About When We Talk About Trust – The EU Risk Assessment Process
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Digital Trade Estimates Project EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicySince March this year, the EU Member States have taken concrete steps to support an EU-wide approach to secure 5G networks, starting with a joint...
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Brexit: The Marginal Effects of EU Agricultural Subsidies on UK Trade
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityAlthough it is yet unclear when exactly and under which conditions, but the UK will eventually leave the Single Market. Several studies have...
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Transatlantic Trade Relations: Return to Normal?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTrump’s rhetoric on trade during his election campaign set a bad tone for US trade policy in general, but also for EU-US trade relations. However,...
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Data Localization in the EU: The Threat from Inside
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyAs growth in the EU has remained low and the usual channels for recovery such as greater investment or an increase in the working-age population...
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What We Talk about When we Talk about Trade
Tags: tradeCommissioner Cecilia Malmström’s Communication on European trade strategy seems to have won praises from Brussels and the capitals, with at least...
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ECJ Safe Harbour Ruling Already Paves Way for Data Localisation in Germany
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyOn 6 October 2015, EU-US Safe Harbour framework – the self-certification program for US firms according to the EU’s Data Protection Directive...
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After the ECJ Ruling: What Now?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North AmericaIn a nutshell On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued the long-awaited ruling on the case of Max Schrems, which investigated whether...
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Data Localisation Requirement in Russia: A Self-imposed Sanction
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Russia and EurasiaIn recent years, data localisation requirements have become one of the main threats to the open trading system. As cross-border data flows are...