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This piece was co-authored with Keith M. Rockwell, Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hinrich Foundation. The extraordinary message on international economic...

The Single Market just turned 30. It is one of the EU’s greatest achievements and the success of the Single Market is built on the fundamental economic logic that binds EU Member States together....

It is not strange to think that the digital economy is made by and for American companies. Google is the window to the Internet, we buy through Amazon, and send messages via WhatsApp. According to...

I have finally got around to reading the leaked draft proposal by the European Commission to overhaul the system of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) by creating a new framework for determining...

When it comes to Northern Ireland, there is rarely a single story. Complexities of post-Brexit trading arrangements were overlaid on existing political and social ambiguities in the form of a...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was met with calls for economically alienating Russia. Countries were encouraged to impose sanctions, reduce trade with Russia, and offset any economic...

This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto.  “Never send a human to do a machine's job” said Agent Smith in The Matrix as he fought to defend their technological dominance...

This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development. The competitiveness of a region is manifested in the commercial success or...

Notwithstanding endless discussions and early data, Brexit cannot yet be definitively declared a success or failure. Those who would point to trade deals and independent regulatory policy as signs of...

Digital trade has grown very fast in recent years, not least because of Covid-19 and its push to do online business. The pandemic, according to one news story, “has accelerated digitalization and...