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Interview With Tengiz Pkhaladze on Recent Developments in Moldova and Georgia
Fredrik Erixon interviewed Tengiz Pkhaladze, a Senior Fellow at ECIPE, about the recent developments in Moldova and Georgia, two countries on the path to the EU membership, where important elections...
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Europe’s Renewed Trade Policy Challenge
President Trump’s return to the White House means that trade policy will return to prominence. For one thing we know for certain is that he believes the US has done badly economically from the rest...
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Buckle Up – A Second Trump Administration and Europe
It must be the most remarkable comeback ever in democratic political history, but Donald Trump has won the Presidential election and will in January next year return to the White House. The whole...
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The Case for Expanding the EU’s Transatlantic Relations
In 1917, in the aftermath of the sinking of U.S. merchant ships, President Woodrow Wilson told Congress in his request for a declaration of war on Germany that “the world must be safe for democracy...
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This Is What the UK Wants From an EU Reset (But What Will It Offer, and What Does the EU Want?)
With Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen agreeing regular future summits and joint working by officials to prepare them, the first stage of the UK-EU reset is completed successfully. Despite...
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The Rise of Anti-Economics: How the Western Public Discourse is Infused by the Opposite of Basic Economics
My thesis in this essay is that we now live in an era of anti-economics. Just like antimatter is the opposite of ordinary matter, the Western public policy discourse now seems permeated by...
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New Book: The US and EU, and the Emerging Supply Chain Network: Politics, Prospects and Allies
In a new book, Niklas Swanström, Fredrik Erixon and Mrittika Huha Sarkar take a deeper look at key geoeconomics issues and ask what the US and the EU can do to improve economic security in a world...
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Mexico: the Missing Piece in the EU’s Transatlantic Outlook
Mexico elected a new President in June and, on October 1st,, the country's first female president, Dr Claudia Sheinbaum, will take office. There are plenty of challenges in her inbox: Mexico's...
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Rules Without End: EU’s Reluctance to Let Go of Regulation
The goal is to increase competitiveness, and for that, Europe needs to reduce the volume of regulation and improve its quality. This is one of the points emphasised by Mario Draghi, who on 9...
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Cloud Services and Export Performance: Evidence and Implications for EU Policy
Hannes Berggren, Trade Policy Advisor, The National Board of Trade The use of cloud services is reshaping how companies can operate and expand to new markets, making cloud access important for EU...