Blog
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Miriam Campanella in memoriam
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...
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Brexit: Fishing for Reality
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...
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“What’s next for sustainability – How can future trade policies promote sustainable agriculture and food production?”
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...
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Europe’s Naivety and Strategic Autonomy
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...
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Rethinking Trade Policy and Consumers
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...
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COVID, Trade, the G20, WTO and Oscar Wilde
‘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...
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Also-ran support for Open RAN
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...
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Irish-American: Biden’s Heritage and Transatlantic Relations
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...
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Biden’s win creates a new global trade challenge – delivering results
President Biden will enter the White House to considerable goodwill from an international community mostly relieved that they don’t have to put up with another four years of President Trump. The...
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At last Brexit enters endgame
After a rather strange few days in which the UK government threatened to halt EU trade talks because of conditions either already agreed, such as intensification of talks, or never going to be, a...