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“The Logic of Zero”: Boosting SMEs Trade in TTIP
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has several novelties. One is that it will include, for the first time in a free...
New Zealand: The EU’s Asia-Pacific Partnership and the Case for a Next Generation FTA
Given the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and several intra-Asian agreements, the EU is focused on large-sized free trade agreements (FTAs) to avoid...
“Splendid Isolation” as Trade Policy: Mercantilism and Crude Keynesianism in “the Capaldo Study” of TTIP
A recent study by Capaldo suggests that TTIP would have seriously negative consequences for trade, growth, income and employment in Europe. It has...
The Health of Nations: A Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agenda for Better Healthcare
Today, increases in the demand for healthcare are driving European governments to look for ways to control growth in healthcare expenditures and at...
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: An Accident Report
This Policy Brief is co-authored with Bob Vastine and J Bradford Jensen The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was...
Familiar Fault Lines: The Myth of EP Independence in Economic Policy-making
The Lisbon Treaty expanded the scope and depth of the European Parliament’s powers by bringing the bulk of EU legislation under the ordinary...
TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP: A Challenge to Europe
What if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is not a doomed initiative – and what if it will actually make inroads into modern trade problems? The...
Sovereign Patent Funds (SPFs): Next-generation Trade Defence?
While there is an increasing demand for a discipline in the next generation FTAs that restricts SOEs in international trade, there is less debate on...
The French Audiovisual Policy: An Evaluation
The two last years have witnessed a hot debate in France on whether the current French audiovisual policy has had a positive or a negative impact on...
La politique audiovisuelle française: a bout de souffle
Ces deux dernières années, la France a connu un vif débat sur l’impact de la politique audiovisuelle actuelle sur le rayonnement de la culture...