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Event Summary: Trading Up: How EU Trade Policy Can Lead to Better Market Access and More Resilient Sourcing
On May 14, 2024, together with Europe Unlocked, we organised a conference titled "Trading Up: How EU Trade Policy Can Lead to Better Market Access and More Resilient Sourcing." The event, held in...
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The big shift in global trade in services: a tale of five modes of supply
*Disclaimer: the views expressed herein are those of the author and do not represent an official position by the European Commission. Global rules governing services trade rely on a fundamental...
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The next EU parliamentary elections and the future of international trade
"The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him." Jan Patočka to Václav Havel in Disturbing The...
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Tocqueville, the Revolution and the European Parliament election
In the French city of Tours, in the heart of the Loire Valley, we can find an explanation for Europe's turbulent politics. Geert Wilders has recently won the Dutch election. Putin ally Robert Fico is...
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A July General Election offers a new government time to rethink EU relations
As the speculation built that a UK General Election was to be called, those with one eye on UK-EU relations noted that the soon-to-be-confirmed date of 4 July meant that it would potentially be new...
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Trade in the Great Sea: Revisiting EU-Southern Mediterranean trade relations
Image: Romeyn de Hooghe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Mediterranean region may currently not be a central geography for EU trade policy. As the EU’s attention lies on issues such as...
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The Letta Report – the Good and the Bad!
Yes, it’s the report season again! No, I don’t mean the season of full-year or Q1 reports from Corporate-land but that we have a few months ahead of us with new reports about the EU’s economic...
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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...