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The new Communication from the European Commission and the ongoing reform of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) have revived the debate about trade between the EU and developing countries....

There are some interesting ideas and proposals in the European Commission’s new Communication on trade and development. After a decade as leader of aid for trade, the EU now wants to reform its...

Did you think that the Doha Round had died and was gone for good?  Not so: the Trade Ministers in December “deeply regretted that … negotiations are at an impasse”;  but they “remain...

There is a heated debate in Brussels now about whether the European Commission should take a hard-line approach against Spain and other countries that will violate the three-percent deficit rule...

Europe’s fiscal crisis can never be solved unless its economy orbits into a high-growth trajectory. Yet an agenda for increased economic growth is badly missing in Europe today. While many...

By Lisa Brandt (former Trade Analyst at ECIPE) The European Commission is not burying its head in the sand when it comes to promoting sustainable energy. Not even accusations of ‘unfairly’...

There are several factors that explain the current Eurozone crisis. One of them – arguably the key factor – is the sharp difference between economies inside the Eurozone and the different...

Most commentary in the past days about the outcome of the EU summit and Cameron’s veto has been vastly exaggerated. As often in the strange debate in the UK over Europe, it is a debate that is more...

While Europe’s attention is focused on EU leaders fighting the Eurozone crisis and intriguing future Russia World Trade Organization accession, not many have noticed that two low-income countries...

By Lisa Brandt (former Trade Analyst at ECIPE) 123 days. That is the number of days that have passed by since the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement entered into force. However, one probably has to...