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This opinion piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, journalist and communicator in financing for development There is a saying in business that a bad decision is better than no...

La coautora de este artículo de opinión es Isabel Pérez del Puerto, periodista y comunicadora en finanzas para el desarrollo Dicen los expertos en negocios que una mala decisión es mejor que...

The EU’s Agreement with Mercosur – which includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay - took twenty years to negotiate. Back in June 2019, there was a political ‘alignment of the stars',...

There is a growing narrative in international trade that globalisation is causing increased concentration of production and that countries are relying too much on foreign imports. One of the clearest...

The European Commission is reviving industrial policy – or so we are told. A year ago it released a communication on a new industrial strategy for the EU and it is due to present an update of the...

Thanks to Anna Guildea for helpful comments. Alexander Hamilton, Europe’s new inspirational hero, not just because EU members have agreed to issue debt collectively for the first time, but...

By Carl Schonander, Tech Policy Executive, Global Digital Finance Americas Consultant, Former U.S. Diplomat  Last month,  Daniel S. Hamilton and Joseph Quinlan released their annual survey...

Author thanks Claudia Lozano for her research assistance Those who call for non-WTO compliant support for O-RAN are either indifferent or nescient about how our trade negotiators try to uphold a...

This note (originally published in print by the Global Commerce Institute in November 2020) looked at the direction of the U.S. trade policy under the new administration, immediately after the...

Thanks to Anna Guildea for helpful comments. The EU lags behind the UK and the US in the percentage of people who have been vaccinated. If anything, this delay has been a heavy blow to many EU...