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NGO Lobbying – How to Ensure Accountability and Transparency at the EU Level
On January 22, the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and ECIPE hosted a seminar on the accountability and transparency of the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) funded by the EU. The...
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4 Million Tonnes Additional CO2 due to Proposed EU Cabotage Laws in Mobility Package
In December 2019, after several years of curious negotiations, EU policymakers have agreed on a hazardous consensus on new rules for the EU’s CO2-intensive road freight transport sector. The...
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The Entrepreneurial Society – A Reform Strategy for the European Union
On November 26, Niklas Elert, an economics scholar at the Swedish Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) presented 'The Entrepreneurial Society – A Reform Strategy for the European...
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EU Freight Cabotage: Will France Manage to Kick Eastern Europe out of the EU’s Single Market?
Current EU law severely restricts the transport of goods within a Member State by a truck operator from a foreign EU country. What is known as ‘cabotage regulations’ mandates foreign truck...
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How did the GATT respond to the birth of the European Community?
A complex question covering signature of the Treaty of Rome, a Customs Union subject to specific GATT rules. It also raised the wider issue of how best to achieve European Integration. The...
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Populist rhetoric in the EU debate over taxing corporations
On October 14, ECIPE hosted a seminar on Europe’s tax competitiveness. The aim was to outline new evidence for tax policymakers, with a focus on the characteristics of national tax systems and...
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Solving the EU’s Amazon Paradox
Here’s a question for you. I recently attended a seminar about Europe’s digital future where I was asked: “How come we have the Amazon Paradox in Europe?”. To explain, the Amazon Paradox...
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Plucking the Digital Goose
The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing This pearl of wisdom came from Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s famed Minister of...
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The Free Flow of Non-Personal Data
Earlier this month MEPs voted to support the final text on the free flow of non-personal data across the European Union (EU). A vast majority of the European Parliament voted in favour of this new...
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Next Steps for Building the Digital Single Market
This is a summary of a discussion that took place at the ECIPE and Microsoft Seminar, on October 15th 2018 in Brussels. The growth of the digital economy has clearly benefited Europe...