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One Year After the Foul Expropriation of YPF: Argentina’s Road to Ruin
It is one year ago since the Argentinian President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, introduced the bill that allowed the government to expropriate...
On Camels and the Making of EU Biofuels Policy
A camel, it is said, is a horse designed by a committee. It is certainly tempting to draw a parallel to the European Union’s biofuels policy and...
Pariah in the World Economy: How Should Countries Respond to Argentina’s Return to Economic Nationalism?
Assessing Argentina’s trade and investment policies, this Policy Brief discusses possible strategies for the European Union and the international...
Back to Basics: Economic Reforms and EU-China Relations
What will happen to trade relations between China and the European Union (EU) in the next few years? China’s rise to preeminence in world trade...
Mercantilist Misconceptions: A Détente Strategy for EU-China Relations
EU-China relations look set to grow increasingly charged in the next few years. Both sides will go through political transitions. We are on the...
After Cross-Strait Rapprochement: A Conceptual Analysis of Potential Gains to Europe from China-Taiwan Economic Cooperation
Is it time for the European Union to revisit its trade policy strategy towards Taiwan? This paper takes a closer look at the potential effects on EU...
Did Euro Leaders Say Goodbye to the IMF?
This policy brief takes stock of the agreement by Eurozone countries in late June at the European summit. If this agreement survives (which is by no...
The Meaning of the Unsaid: The New Eurozone Deal in Perspective
Expectations were low as European leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday last week for yet another summit to deal with an escalation of the crisis....
The Eurozone’s Arrested Adolescence: Sketching a Way Out of the Crisis
The Eurozone crisis has been reinforced and prolonged by leaders’ inability to agree on robust and credible crisis responses. Individual...
High Noon in Europe’s Financial Regulatory Agenda
“Is the chicken now coming home to rooster?”, asked a senior bank executive at a recent conference on European bank regulations. After four years...