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Combating Unsafe Products: How to Improve Europe’s Safety Gate Alerts
By Joana Purves, Researcher at E+Europe and William Echikson, Director E+Europe The European Union has built a one-stop-shop for its member state...
The EU Green Deal and Its Industrial and Political Significance
The European Green Deal, the flagship initiative of the incumbent European Commission, aims to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 55% by 2030...
Globalisation Comes to the Rescue: How Dependency Makes Us More Resilient
A new consensus is growing across the European Union – and other parts of the world too: that globalisation has gone too far. The argument goes as...
Shifting into Digital Services: Does a Crisis Matter and for Who?
How do trade patterns change after an external shock such as an economic crisis, and is this shift structural? This paper uses a...
Europas Streben nach Technologiesouveränität: Chancen und Risiken für Deutschland und die Europäische Union
In den vergangenen Monaten wurden von einigen führenden Europapolitikern Strategien zur Erreichung einer sog. „europäischen...
Discrimination, Exclusion and Environmental Harm: Why EU Lawmakers Need to Ban Freight Transport Restrictions to Save the Single Market
The EU’s Mobility Package 1 legislative proposal was once intended to improve the working conditions of truck and small-van drivers in the EU....
Europe’s Quest for Technology Sovereignty: Opportunities and Pitfalls
Covid-19 and its broader implications have highlighted the importance of Europe’s digital transformation to ensure Europeans’ social and economic...
Innovation and Less Harmful Alternatives to Tobacco: The Case of Nicotine Pouches Regulation
By Christofer Fjellner, a former Member of the European Parliament For some years now, tobacco-free nicotine pouches – a tobacco-free version of...
The Role of Trade Policy in Promoting Sustainable Agriculture
There is now a long history of countries improving sustainability standards in most parts of the economy while at the same time pursuing the...
Patterns of Trade Restrictiveness in Online Platforms: A First Look
This paper develops a digital platform restrictiveness index for 64 countries based on ECIPE’s Digital Trade Estimates (DTE) database and the...