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Ukraine After the Crisis: Recovery and Reform, not Revolution or Russification
This Policy Brief aims at examining Ukraine's economic woes and what it needs to do to improve economic performance. At the centre of the Brief are...
Stepping into Asia’s Growth Markets: Dispelling Myths about the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement
Four years after the launch of Global Europe – the European Union’s trade strategy from 2006 – policymakers are now confronted with the first...
Baltic Economic Reforms: A Crisis Review of Baltic Economic Policy
The Baltic economies were severely hit by the global financial crisis. Gross Domestic Product has contracted considerably. Naturally, it asked what...
Vested and Invested Interests: The Role of Investment Protection in EU-Russia Relations
Relations between the European Union and Russia have lately been improving. After years with a turbulent stop-go relation, fraught by Russian...
A Transatlantic Zero Agreement: Estimating the Gains from Transatlantic Free Trade in Goods
This study examines the potential gains from a transatlantic zero-tariff agreement on trade in goods. The idea of deeper transatlantic economic...
Beyond Geopolitics – The Case for a Free Trade Accord between Europe and Taiwan
This paper discusses the economics and geopolitics of EU Taiwan commercial relations and weighs the case for a free trade agreement (FTA) between...
The Case Against Europe’s 2020 Agenda
The European Union has set out a new strategy for growth and competitiveness. A successor to the Lisbon agenda, the 2020 strategy aims to usher...
Trade, Globalisation and Emerging Protectionism Since the Crisis
The global economic crisis, and governments’ responses to the crisis, did not precipitate a descent into 1930s-style protectionism. That is a...
The Quest for Gas Market Competition
More, 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...
Green Protectionism in the European Union: How Europe’s Biofuels Policy and the Renewable Energy Directive Violate WTO Commitments
What happened to the professed environmental goal to substitute fossil fuels wit biofuels, asks Fredrik Erixon in a new study of EU biofuels policy....