Insights
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EU Reform and the European Parliament Elections
By: Fredrik ErixonThere is a confusing debate going on about how to interpret last week’s European elections. A fairly considerable body of opinion suggests that the...
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After the Election: Business as Usual
By: Fredrik ErixonThe elections to the European Parliament hardly produced unexpected results. All the polls in the past weeks have shown that Front National and the...
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The New Parliament and Economic Challenges
By: Fredrik ErixonI was asked by the CASS Journal in China to give a few thoughts on what economic issues that the new European Parliament should address. Here's the...
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The Costs of Data Localization
In the aftermath of recent revelations on mass-scale electronic surveillance, there has been a widespread proliferation of internet restrictions. One...
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European Growth and the Stark Economic Reality of a Lost Decade
By: 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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The World Economy – Running on One or Two Engines?
By: Fredrik ErixonThe image of the world economy in the past years has been one of a slowing tanker, running only on one engine. The developing part of the world, or...
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Threats to the European Way of Life (part 4)
Tags: 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.
No 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)
A 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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Unwelcome Benefits of the WTO Bali Deal?
Tags: agriculture foreign direct investment India Least Developed Countries multilateralism trade facilitation WTO WTO Ministerial ConferenceAfter twelve years of tedious negotiations, only a fraction of the original Doha mandate remains. One is filled with certain surprise and relief,...
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Money and Growth in the UK Economy
By: 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
Tags: 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...