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Different countries have different strategies to protect their markets. This bar chart shows the top 10 export- and import-restricting non-tariff measures currently applied by India, the USA, Brazil,...

The last Japan-EU Summit achieved a little noticed but crucial progress. It made a clear call for “further progress in regulatory cooperation” between Japan and the EU—a theme non-existent two...

By Serena Sileoni, Deputy Director, Instituto Bruno Leoni The EU originated and developed in order to secure for consumers and producers the benefits of a single space for transactions...

By Meelis Kitsing, a lecturer at the Estonian Business School, Director of the Centre for Free Economic Thought The European Union has adopted smart specialization strategy in its innovation...

A new wave of technological changes is reshaping the manufacturing sector in its entirety. Autonomous robotics, additive manufacturing, cloud computing and sensor technology are only few of the new...

By Richard Robert, Executive Director, ParisTech Review The digital single market is a fact. Neither a project, nor an ambition, just a fact. Only thing is, it is in no way limited to European...

In recent years, data localisation requirements have become one of the main threats to the open trading system. As cross-border data flows are integral to a modern economy, restricting the movement...

Over the last seven days, as the FIFA story has unfolded, the famous dictum: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” has been in my mind. That story has developed from...

By Alastair Reed, Renaud Thillaye, Policy Network The European Commission has just set out bold ambitions for a digital single market but achieving the buy-in of member states for pan-European...

By Diego Zuluaga, Institute of Economic Affairs & EPICENTER Tax policy has featured prominently in discussions of the EU’s digital economy for some time. Unfortunately, much of the...