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The Case Against Europe’s 2020 Agenda
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Fredrik ErixonThe European Union has set out a new strategy for growth and competitiveness. A successor to the Lisbon agenda, the 2020 strategy aims to usher...
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Trade, Globalisation and Emerging Protectionism Since the Crisis
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe global economic crisis, and governments’ responses to the crisis, did not precipitate a descent into 1930s-style protectionism. That is a...
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The Quest for Gas Market Competition
By: Fredrik ErixonMore, not less, competition in the EU’s gas markets is required to achieve a Single Market and to therefore reduce Europe’s vulnerability to gas...
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Green Protectionism in the European Union: How Europe’s Biofuels Policy and the Renewable Energy Directive Violate WTO Commitments
By: Fredrik ErixonWhat happened to the professed environmental goal to substitute fossil fuels wit biofuels, asks Fredrik Erixon in a new study of EU biofuels policy....
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A New Trade Agenda for Transatlantic Economic Cooperation
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityFew policy issues in Brussels and Washington DC are met with such a compact unity across political boundaries as the idea of deepened transatlantic...
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Containing Creeping Protectionism: A Realist Agenda for the G20
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: protectionismBy: Fredrik ErixonThe G20 summit in London offers an opportunity for world leaders to prevent a continued slide towards protectionism. Yet the summit is already at...
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The Baltic Tiger – The Political Economy of Estonia’s Transition from Plan to Market
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonFew countries have reformed their economies as swiftly and decisively as Estonia in 1992-94. The economic reform program started during the...
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From Twin Towers to Fawlty Towers – a Story of the Doha Round (mimeo)
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThe Doha Round has yet again collapsed. The July 2008 attempt to negotiate a broad headline deal between the main member countries of the WTO failed....
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Europe’s Energy Dependency and Russia’s Commercial Assertiveness
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Russia and Eurasia Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonEurope is dependent on Russia for its energy supply and finds itself at odds with designing a policy that addresses its rising number of concerns...
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Globalisation, Earnings and Consumer Prices: Taking Stock of the Benefits From Globalisation
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonGlobalisation has been accused of “stealing jobs” and depressing wages in the developed part of the world. China’s entry into the world...
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The Health of Nations: Conceptualizing Approaches to Trade in Health Care
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThe forces of the Wealth of nations are not at work for the Health of nations. Economic and trade integration have progressed over the last fifty...
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An EU-China Trade Dialogue: A New Policy Framework to Contain Deteriorating Trade Relations
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonEU-China trade and economic relations have deteriorated. The rhetoric has become tougher on both sides, and the EU has imported the culture of...