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Globalisation is in trouble. Ever since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008, global trade has been unable to return to its preceding upward trend. Rising protectionism, falling efficiency gains...

Radio access networks account for just 4% of operators’ cost. So how did it become a public policy discussion? In one of the more surprising news to come out of Sweden, we read that the CEO of...

It is with great sadness that I write about the death of Miriam Campanella, a professor and economic scholar – and senior fellow at ECIPE for the past 7 years. She was diagnosed with...

By Richard Carden Boris has done Brexit. We are out of the EU. It is long past the time for discussing whether we would be better to Remain or Leave. We are at the start of a new chapter of British...

On 10 November 2020, ECIPE held a webinar titled “What’s next for sustainability – How can future trade policies promote sustainable agriculture and food production?” In the context of the...

The EU doesn’t want to be the battle ground for the trade and technological war between China and the US. Trapped between these two powers, Europe feels as dependent on US big-tech as it claims to...

Consumers are supposed to be the major beneficiaries of trade deals, receiving greater choice at lower prices as the result of the removal of barriers to trade. Given this, there is often frustration...

‘Buy American’, ‘Dual Circulation’, ‘Strategic Autonomy’ – these, and similar ideas, have been around or in gestation for some time.  They are based on governments’ assessments...

Once in a while, a topic that seems abstruse unexpectedly becomes a subject of broader public debate. When we published our paper on Open RAN, we thought only a handful telecom regulators would be...

On the night of November 7th as Biden officially won the United States presidential election, a clip from several years ago resurfaced to make its rounds on Twitter: the President-Elect can be seen...