EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance
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European Growth and the Stark Economic Reality of a Lost Decade
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonI was asked by a couple of news agencies yesterday what I thought of the new winter economic forecast from the European Commission. I am neither...
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Threats to the European Way of Life (part 4)
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyTags: FranceI wrote here about the French peculiar ban against online booking of taxis. Well, yesterday our friends at the FT report that the law has been...
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More Threats to European Way of Life (part 3): Movies on Smartphones.
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityNo rest for the wicked – after declaring war on books and taxis, it took the Hollande government less than a week to come back with a new tax on...
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Taxis and Taxes: More “Threats” to the European Way of Life? (part II)
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyA couple of days before Brussels shut down for winter holidays, I was reached by an email that my op-ed on internet taxation in France and Italy is...
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Money and Growth in the UK Economy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Fredrik ErixonThe recovery of the UK economy has puzzled many economists. It contradicts the views of those that have warned for a prolonged recession because...
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The Health and Future of China-EU Trade Relations
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: ChinaBy: Fredrik ErixonI was asked by a big Chinese news agency to provide a short comment on the health of China-EU trade relations. Here it is: Trade growth between...
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A Funeral l(ITA)ny for Technology Trade
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: WTOIt has been called the mother of all plurilaterals – or the only evidence of any trade liberalisation since the creation of the WTO. Nonetheless,...
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Spycraft or Economic Statecraft? The EU Won’t Scuttle Trade Talks with the U.S. over Espionage Allegations
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and Security(A shorter version was published on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal on July 5th, 2013) Kissinger famously asked, “Who do I...
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Freeing Up Transatlantic Trade
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonLast week European leaders endorsed the launch of negotiations between the EU and the US over a bilateral trade agreement. Leaders said that...
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Rebalancing the Eurozone: The Role of Northern Fiscal Policy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceTags: EurozoneBy Jasper De Meyer (Intern at ECIPE) The Eurozone crisis muddles forth. Growth will be stagnant or even decline in 2012. Employment prospects remain...
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Cameron’s Speech
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceTags: UKBy: Fredrik ErixonDavid Cameron’s speech on Europe is no game changer for the European Union. His new strategy on Europe will not be a source of reforms in...
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Open Trade and Its Discontents
The following article was also published as an op-ed in the December 6th issue of the European Voice under the title ’Open trade is a two-way...