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Lessons from Uber for the taxi industry
Once again taxi drivers have blocked the streets in a major European city as part of a protest against the ride-sharing service Uber. The latest demonstration took place in Madrid mirroring similar...
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Online Platform Restrictions and Small Firm Exports
Stricter rules on online platforms restrain potential trade, especially for smaller businesses. This is because online platforms facilitate export and import by lowering transaction and information...
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Cultural Exception vs. Cultural Openness: Back To Seoul, BTS!
In general, it is easy to agree with the concept of cultural exception that France has for many years evoked. Such an approach is based on the idea that cultural goods are different from other...
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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...
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Who are the good, the bad, and the ugly? Not what Mr. Boris Johnson thinks.
When announcing his “Better Plan for Brexit” in The Daily Telegraph, Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson observed “that the one size fits all EU model of regulation—according to the...
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ECIPE and ZPP Conference: Renewing Efforts to Create the Digital Single Market
What are the key areas for digital change in the near future? And how can Europe make greater progress towards creating a Digital Single Market? These were the key questions covered by a high-level...
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The Cost of Data Protectionism
* This blog is written together with Janez Kren, PhD candidate at the University of Leuven, who is a co-author of one of the studies presented below. Policymakers today have the difficult...
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The European Commission’s pharmaceutical innovation incentives review is at risk of serious overreach
Philip Stevens is executive director of Geneva Network, a UK-based research organisation working on international innovation and trade policy. Over the summer, the European Commission (EC)...
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Is Mona Lisa smiling or laughing at the MEP’s vote on Netflix?
The Members of European Parliament voted for the local content quotas on online media platforms. But, did Europe have this quota when its culture was prosperous, like during the Renaissance? The...