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China’s Expanding Influence in the Western Balkans: Why Montenegro Matters
In recent years, powers such as Russia and China increased their economic and political presence in the Western Balkans. It is evident that the EU is currently under pressure to find a solution on...
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Trump’s Reciprocity Gambit Threatens to Upend Global Trading System
Jamieson Greer, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of the US Trade Representative was sailing through his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. Poised and articulate,...
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Shaping an Infrastructure Security Area in the North Atlantic
Introduction The North Atlantic quadrant encompasses the United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the United Kingdom, and the Nordic Peninsula. At its centre lies the Greenland–Iceland–United...
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The EU’s Digital Markets Act: A Gift to Hackers – and a Threat to Competition?
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) was designed to promote competition in digital markets, particularly by preventing large technology firms from imposing anti-competitive business practices. However,...
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Korea’s New AI Law: Not a Progeny of Brussels
Background to the Korean law On the 26th of December 2024, Korea’s National Assembly passed the ‘Act on the Development of AI and Establishment of Trust’ (AI Basic Act), consolidating 19...
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Could Digital Cooperation Help De-escalate EU-US Trade Tensions?
By Hannes Berggren, Trade Policy Advisor, National Board of Trade Prior to the US presidential election, Sweden’s National Board of Trade argued in an analysis that the EU-US fragmentation over...
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Germany’s Industry Isn’t in Decline, It’s Changing
Germany's industry is in turmoil. Last year’s headlines about mass layoffs by German industrial giants like Volkswagen, Thyssenkrupp, BASF, and Continental were striking—but hardly...
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Europe’s Economic Security in Services
Economic security reached the Mount Olympus of European buzzwords when Maroš Šefčovič was appointed EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security. However, Europe’s concern over its economic...
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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...