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Event Summary: Improving Europe’s Competitiveness – Role of Open Markets, Emerging Technologies, and Strategic Alliances
Last April 8, we co-organised together with the Centre for European Perspective the event “Improving Europe’s Competitiveness – Role of Open Markets, Emerging Technologies, and Strategic...
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Spain, Split and Talk: Quantifying Regional Independence
This piece is co-authored by Hanna Adam (University of Bayreuth), Mario Larch (University of Bayreuth), and Jordi Paniagua (University of Valencia and University of Notre Dame). In December 2019,...
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On the importance of trade openness
*Disclaimer: the views expressed herein are those of the author and do not represent an official position by the European Commission. Competitiveness concerns are back to the fore. The FT has...
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Grumbling in the Fields: EU Agriculture and Trade
*The views expressed herein are individual to the author and do not represent any official position European farmers have taken their tractors to the streets. Their list of complaints can be...
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L’accord CETA et les PME : une évaluation commerciale au niveau microéconomique
* Avertissement : les opinions exprimées ici sont celles de l'auteur et ne représentent pas une position officielle de la Commission européenne. CETA : des attentes à la réalité L’ALE...
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The Value of Values
This blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 10th of March 2024 with Isabel Pérez del Puerto. The original article can be found here. The blog also draws from Nils Karlson...
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IMEC: The Road That Should Not Be Taken
In the Greek Mythology, a Sisyphean task refers to a seemingly endless and futile endeavour, almost impossible to complete. The inception of the India-Middle-East Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC)...
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The resilience of liberalism: two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
"The battles for decency and truth are among the most important political battles of our time, and the adjective liberal is our most important weapon." Michael Walzer, 2023 February 24th, 2024,...
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WTO Abu Dhabi Conference: Stalemate or Stepping Stone
It’s only 20 months since the WTO last had a ministerial conference. Usually, it’s at least two years between meetings but the previous conference was delayed by COVID, so there’s an element...
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Cybersicherheitszertifizierung von Cloud-Dienstleistungen: Öffnet die deutsche Bundesregierung die Büchse der Pandora?
Teile der deutschen Wirtschaft äußern sehr große Bedenken hinsichtlich des Entwurfs für das Europäische Cybersicherheitszertifizierungsschema für Cloud-Dienste (EUCS) – ein Vorhaben, dass auf...