Insights (Filter: EU)
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September Song – EU-UK Talks Approach Decision Time
By: David HenigWe are around halfway through the time allocated for UK-EU future relationship talks. It is four months since the UK finally left the EU, and four...
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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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‘Urgent Need to Review the Mobility Package 1 Proposals’ Says EU Transport Sector
By: Natalia MacyraThe European Parliament Transport Committee continues working on the Mobility Package 1 despite the ongoing coronavirus crisis that led to...
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Of Debt and Disease.
A 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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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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Coronavirus Does Not Mean the End of Globalisation
By: David HenigThe world of trade will change for ever. Globalisation is dead. Supply chains will become shorter, and less complex. The nation state is back. Except...
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Call on European Parliament: Stop Freight Cabotage Restrictions and Save the Single Market
By: Matthias Bauer60 kilometres of traffic jams on the border between Poland and Germany. 20 hours waiting time due to vehicle inspections. Because of border controls,...
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Trade Policy and COVID-19: Openness and Cooperation in Times of a Pandemic
Covid-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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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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Coronavirus and Trade – Reflecting Today’s Messy Globalisation
By: David HenigIntroduction The bravest prediction in the midst of a crisis is that nothing will change as a result. Typically at such times, the optimists hope...
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Government and Coronavirus
By: David HenigI’m not a coronavirus expert. Trade, economics and politics is my field. I had to look up the spelling of epidemiologist for this article and I’m...
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Trade Policy and the Fight Against Coronavirus
The economic impact of the coronavirus or COVID-19 will be dramatic and long-lasting. Governments across the world have put in place extraordinary...