Publications (Filter: EU)
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EU-Africa Trade Relations: The Political Economy of Economic Partnership Agreements
By: Peter DraperFor the last five years the European Union has been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific...
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A Transatlantic Divide?
The TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) tends to be...
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Assessing the EC Trade Policy in Goods
The recent shift in European trade policy to negotiate bilateral agreements with no less than 24 countries is taking Europe into dangerous waters....
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Better Regulation in Europe – Current Legal Problems
“Better Regulation” is afoot in Europe. After several transatlantic conflicts over regulatory topics such as the precautionary principle,...
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Trade Preferences to Small Developing Countries and the Welfare Costs of Lost Multilateral Liberalization
The proliferation of preferential trade liberalization over the last 20 years has raised the question of whether it slows down multilateral trade...
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EU Regulatory and Supervisory Convergence: The Case for a Dual System with Choice
Pressure for further convergence of European financial sector supervision continues to mount. There is still considerable opposition to further...
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Between Lisbon and London: Financial Sector Consolidation in the Context of the Lisbon Agenda
It’s “half-time” for the Lisbon Agenda - which has aimed to make Europe the most competitive and dynamic economy in the world by 2010. And...
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From Euro-Med Partnership to European Neighborhood: Deeper Integration à la Carte and Economic Development
The expansion of the European Union (EU) has prompted the development of a new approach towards deeper integration with its neighbors: the European...
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