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The appointment of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the new Director-General of the World Trade Organization has been called historic. She is the first female and first African head of the Organization - a...

The UK has formally declared the intention to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, also known as the CPTPP trade agreement. After Brexit, the UK government...

For the UK government January 2021 meant finally starting the implementation stage of Global Britain. Freed from EU membership and replicating EU trade deals the country could move on to new Free...

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...