Lilianna Ziedins, a student of Economics and International Studies at the American University, and an intern at ECIPE between January and April 2022. The conflict in Ukraine has accelerated the...

The war in Europe has now been raging for more than a month. Day by day, it is becoming more violent. Lives of innocent people are sacrificed because of Vladimir Putin’s malicious desire to restore...

Russia’s war on Ukraine has started a new discussion about Europe’s energy dependency on Russia. In an upcoming ECIPE policy brief, we develop a conceptual framework and indicators to measure...

With the rapidity of events in the last month full analysis of the long-term implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for global politics or economics feels premature, especially given the...

In a recent LinkedIn post, my colleague Hosuk Lee-Makiyama asked why so many policymakers in Europe are concerned with digital sovereignty when the vast majority of value added in digital services is...

There is an intimate relation between the single market and intellectual property (IP) in that they both rely fundamentally on economies of scale. One of the advantages of the single market is that...

There are days when history accelerates. February 24th, 2022, is one of those days. If the post-Cold War order had not ended before, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was certainly the final nail in the...

Last week, the US government distributed an eight-point policy paper calling on the EU to reconsider its proposed Digital Market Act (DMA). The message was clear: "We think it is important that...

This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development.  In the last quarter of 2021, fear of Covid-19 was temporarily overtaken by...

This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development.  Anyone who has tried knows all too well the challenge of preparing a...