Insights
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Never Short of Good Ideas…
To clarify, ECIPE proposed the International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA for short) in 2010 to expand the WTO IT Agreement (ITA) to cover both...
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Desert Island FTAs: How the CJK Agreement and the Territorial Dispute Actually Co-exist
If you believe the Western press, we are approaching a major conflict over the Senkaku islands or Diaoyus, depending on who you side with. There...
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Bang or a Whimper? The Doha Round and the Bali Ministerial Meeting
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThe paradox of modern trade policy is that it is painfully difficult to stitch together a global trade deal despite economies being ever more densely...
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Trade, Regulations and TPP
Research Areas: Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: TPPBy: Fredrik ErixonThe Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the twelve-country trade initiative, is often billed by United States to be a “gold standard” trade...
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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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From the Swiss Formula to the Swiss Cheese Approach to Trade
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonIt is a sign of times that many government officials today spend considerable time thinking about what products that should not be embraced by...
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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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So Who is Eating Argentina’s Lunch Now?
Research Areas: Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Latin America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonCristina Fernández de Kirchner, the President of Argentina, was on fire that day, almost exactly a year ago, when she introduced the bill...
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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...