Insights
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Europe’s Summer of Staycation
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceTags: EUBy: Oscar GuineaThanks to Anna Guildea for helpful comments. The EU lags behind the UK and the US in the percentage of people who have been vaccinated. If...
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Europe’s Naivety and Strategic Autonomy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Oscar GuineaThe EU doesn’t want to be the battle ground for the trade and technological war between China and the US. Trapped between these two powers, Europe...
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Preparing for COVID-20
By: Oscar GuineaIf there were to be another pandemic, what would you have done differently? This question should be at the front of any policy-maker. Covid-19 has...
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What’s the Deal with No-Deal? EU and UK Trade Dependency
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and Security UK Trade Policy ProjectBy: Oscar GuineaThe EU and the UK continue to negotiate a free trade agreement. Nonetheless, the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is being seriously considered in...
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On Ants, Dinosaurs, and How to Survive a Trade Apocalypse
Palaeontologists have long recognised that unexpected but hugely devastating events can change life on Earth forever. A common theory suggests that a...
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Trade in Time of Corona: What’s Next for the EU?
The European Commission updated its trade forecasts for 2020 which followed the WTO’s estimates for this and next year. Both reports agree on a...
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The Right Kind of Standard to Fight a Pandemic
By: Oscar GuineaOn the 20th of March 2020, the EU made a big announcement. To help companies ramp up production on medical goods, 11 standards were made available...
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A Global Agreement on Medical Equipment and Supplies to fight COVID-19
By: Oscar GuineaThe trade answer to the coronavirus crisis has been a mix of openness and protectionism. Countries have lowered import duties (examples here, here,...
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Trade Policy and COVID-19: Openness and Cooperation in Times of a Pandemic
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms Project Trade, Globalisation and SecurityCovid-19 has hit the world very hard in general and some regions so far in particular (e.g. China, Europe, US) over the past three months. The deep...
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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...
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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,...
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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...