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China’s Expanding Influence in the Western Balkans: Why Montenegro Matters
Due to the economic and political presence of non-EU actors such as Russia and China in the Western Balkan region, the EU is now under pressure to find a solution on how to counteract the presence of...
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Trump’s Reciprocity Gambit Threatens to Upend Global Trading System
Jamieson Greer, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of the US Trade Representative was sailing through his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. Poised and articulate,...
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Shaping an Infrastructure Security Area in the North Atlantic
Introduction The North Atlantic quadrant encompasses the United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the United Kingdom, and the Nordic Peninsula. At its centre lies the Greenland–Iceland–United...
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Korea’s New AI Law: Not a Progeny of Brussels
Background to the Korean law On the 26th of December 2024, Korea’s National Assembly passed the ‘Act on the Development of AI and Establishment of Trust’ (AI Basic Act), consolidating 19...
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Could Digital Cooperation Help De-escalate EU-US Trade Tensions?
By Hannes Berggren, Trade Policy Advisor, National Board of Trade Prior to the US presidential election, Sweden’s National Board of Trade argued in an analysis that the EU-US fragmentation over...
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Brussels Can’t Save Europe’s Car Industry – But It Can Stop Making It Worse
The European Union on 30 January launched its Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European Automotive Industry, an initiative aimed at safeguarding a sector under growing pressure. With EU...
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Beyond Fear: The EU-Mercosur Agreement and European Agriculture
This blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 19th of January 2025 with María C. Latorre and Isabel Pérez del Puerto. The original article can be found here. On the 6th of...
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Webinar Summary: The Health of the Economy – Inflation, Regulation, and How to Fix Europe’s Underperforming Economic Growth
In a recent webinar hosted by ECIPE, John Cochrane, a leading economist and the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, discussed pressing economic...
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Decision-Time – The 2025 UK Trade Policy Stocktake
Delivering an EU reset amid the tumult likely to follow the re-election of President Trump makes 2025 a year when the UK government must make trade policy decisions. For business confidence that will...
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5G Toolbox in 2025: A Question of Trust
State of the EU 5G Security Toolbox In October 2019, we published a short illustrated comment explaining how Europe's approach to 5G security increasingly became distinct from technical security,...