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The Role of Intellectual Property in Achieving the Health Sustainable Development Goal
By Prof. Dr. David Taylor, University College London Introduction In the absence of a vaccine much of the positive progress on combating HIV/AIDS recorded in the last 20 years has been due to the...
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How to Win Friends and Influence People: EU Sanctions, Trade Distortions, and the Case for Reviving Economic Diplomacy
The response of the West to the Russian war in Ukraine has been to isolate the Russian economy. And although it might seem like they have been successful, given the scale and severity of the...
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Three Seas Initiative: Instrument for Decreasing Dependency on Russian Energy
Lilianna Ziedins, a student of Economics and International Studies at the American University, and an intern at ECIPE between January and April 2022. The conflict in Ukraine has accelerated the...
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Protect Ukraine – Protect Europe!
The war in Europe has now been raging for more than a month. Day by day, it is becoming more violent. Lives of innocent people are sacrificed because of Vladimir Putin’s malicious desire to restore...
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EU’s Dependency Problem on Russian Oil and Gas
Russia’s war on Ukraine has started a new discussion about Europe’s energy dependency on Russia. In an upcoming ECIPE policy brief, we develop a conceptual framework and indicators to measure...
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Thoughts on EU Trade Policy after Ukraine
With the rapidity of events in the last month full analysis of the long-term implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for global politics or economics feels premature, especially given the...
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Can China Make up for the West?
The Russian economy is in disarray. The Russian ruble is in free fall; sales of foreign exchange are banned; and foreign companies are fleeing Russia day by day. In a previous blog we showed the high...
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On Ukraine: Why the crisis may actually intensify new globalisation rather than scale it back
In response to sanctions levied by the US after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia has effectively halted the supply of key rocket engines to the US. Since the 1990s, Russia has supplied 122...
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Russia Import Dependency Problem
There’s a lot of talk about Europe’s dependency on the Russian economy – especially the flow into Europe of oil, gas, grains, and some gases like neon. While it is important for Europe to break...
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The Day When History Changed: Choices and Consequences for Europe’s Future Relation to Russia
There are days when history accelerates. February 24th, 2022, is one of those days. If the post-Cold War order had not ended before, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was certainly the final nail in the...