The issue of immigration is currently a hot debated topic and is often put in connection with globalisation and the current political backlash. Both are actually two sides of the same coin. If goods...

It took a great deal of negotiation efforts, but the European Commission implementing decision on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US Privacy Shield is finally out. A step the...

Sir Geoffrey Owen is a business historian, former Editor of the Financial Times, and Senior Fellow at the London School Economics, Michael Hopkins is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Research for...

The United Kingdom has voted to leave the EU. It is a momentous decision. No one knows the scale of the consequences that will follow a UK departure from the EU – and the only thing we can say with...

By Anupam Ray, Professor at Paterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky at Lexington, [email protected] The interaction between Europe and Asia is the...

Domestic institutions are an important factor explaining past economic performance (Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson, 2001) as well as comparative advantage (Levchenko, 2005; Nunn, 2007). Simply put,...

It was the “Walkman” which transformed Sony from a relatively unknown small company in the 1970s to the prominent global giant that we know today. Given its popular reputation, it is remarkable...

“Gangnam Style” by Psy has been a seemingly unstoppable musical force around the world. With over 2.5 billion clicks (as of February 2016) this song has been YouTube's most watched video since...

It was about time. Pre-internet rules on data protection were not fit for our new interconnected reality. The core institutions of the European Union have finally set in stone an agreement which...

There is a fascinating twist in the current European debate on cultural industries and the Single Digital Market: it has been dominated by the transatlantic dimension. Europeans are still measuring...