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Beyond Fear: The EU-Mercosur Agreement and European Agriculture
This blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 19th of January 2025 with María C. Latorre and Isabel Pérez del Puerto. The original article can be found here. On the 6th of...
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Decision-Time – The 2025 UK Trade Policy Stocktake
Delivering an EU reset amid the tumult likely to follow the re-election of President Trump makes 2025 a year when the UK government must make trade policy decisions. For business confidence that will...
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France and Germany: Transforming Challenges into Leadership Opportunities
France and Germany are Europe’s largest economies. Their collaboration has historically been a catalyst for change, often establishing benchmarks for economic and political integration. Today, in...
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Action and Reaction in International Trade
This blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 24th of November 2024 with Isabel Pérez del Puerto. The original article can be found here. Following Donald Trump’s victory...
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Sweden vs Switzerland: A Heavyweight Champions Fight on Innovation
Much like with other headline-making international rankings, the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has recently drawn media attention with the release of the 2024 edition of its...
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Should Germany Abolish the Corporate Income Tax?
The stark disparity between the relatively low government revenue derived from corporate taxes and the substantial contributions from labour and consumption taxes in Germany underscores the need for...
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Interview With Tengiz Pkhaladze on Recent Developments in Moldova and Georgia
Fredrik Erixon interviewed Tengiz Pkhaladze, a Senior Fellow at ECIPE, about the recent developments in Moldova and Georgia, two countries on the path to the EU membership, where important elections...
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Europe’s Renewed Trade Policy Challenge
President Trump’s return to the White House means that trade policy will return to prominence. For one thing we know for certain is that he believes the US has done badly economically from the rest...
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King Donald and the New Right
It was an event that looked like a thought. Rishi Sunak called this summer's British election the Fourth of July: America's Independence Day, the date when the thirteen American colonies broke away...
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Buckle Up – A Second Trump Administration and Europe
It must be the most remarkable comeback ever in democratic political history, but Donald Trump has won the Presidential election and will in January next year return to the White House. The whole...