Blog
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Adapting Under Pressure: The Global South’s Quantum Journey
by Francisco Jure, Research Assistant, ECIPE I have had an Argentine submarine livestream running in the background for days. Thousands of people watched as a pale-pink Dumbo octopus, one among...
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Redefining India’s Trade Policy for a New Global Era
The global trade environment is presently marked by deep uncertainty and rapid changes. Headlines range from new tariff threats launched under US President Donald Trump to announcements of opaque...
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The Draghi Report Turns One Today. Yet It Is Still More Crawling Than Walking.
At one year old, most babies begin to stand on their own feet. Some walk, others wobble, but all start exploring the world under their own strength. Today, the Draghi report turns one. Yet it remains...
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Can the WTO Weather the Storm?
Initiatives to dismantle/redesign/reform the WTO (delete whichever is inapplicable according to your preference) continue apace. Towards one end of the spectrum, USTR Jamieson Greer writes (in a...
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Real-Geopolitik: The Competitiveness Diagnosis Europe Cannot Ignore
A few days after the publication of a Joint Statement and the details of the EU-US trade deal, European leaders were taken by surprise by another tariff threat coming across the Atlantic. The EU...
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H20 Back in the Chinese Market: Washington’s Calculated Adjustment
By Hao Wu, research assistant at ECIPE Timeline Made with time.graphics NVIDIA’s H20 GPU resumed sales to China as the company announced Washington’s decision on July 15. The unexpected move...
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EU Anguish About the US Trade Deal Is Misplaced
Trump’s tariffs will fail in his objective of transforming trade, particularly if others remain open and resist retaliation. In this context the EU’s deal is fine in the short-term but should...
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Tax the Builders, Fund the Bureaucracy: The EU’s Medieval Cure for a Modern Economy
The European Commission’s latest budget proposal – including a new levy on large companies operating across the EU – is being spun as a contribution to “competitiveness” and “strategic...
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Nicotine Lawfare: Sweden and Spain’s Options in Settling the Dispute Over Novel Products
The Internal Market began—and remains—a construct completed through dissension, rather than through an evolution of harmonious cooperation and compromises. Arguably, the Single Market was...
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Unlocking the Western Balkans: Why Serbia Holds the Geopolitical Key
Over the past ten years, Serbia has emerged as the Western Balkans' top investment destination. Even more impressive is the variety of participants: although EU investors currently hold the bulk of...