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Digital services trade is a fundamental and growing element of our shared economic future. But policy makers are disrupting cross-border ecosystems by adopting divergent governance approaches. To...

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by Mary Elise Sarotte Professor Sarotte’s book is necessary reading to understand one of the most controversial diplomatic...

Lucian Cernat is Head of Global Regulatory Cooperation and International Procurement Negotiations at DG TRADE. The author would like to thank Peter Ungphakorn, Aitor Montesa Lloreda, and Olivia...

By acclamation in Europe and USA, globalisation is either dead or fundamentally changing. Yet much resulting government action, such as subsidies and extra-territorial regulation, is not new, and...

The Association Agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – remains in limbo. The text, trapped in Brussel’s bureaucratic...

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...