Fortunately, recent times have seen senior European leaders giving more support to new trade agreements than we have been used to in the past decade. The ratification process of the EU-Mercosur...

by Francisco Jure, Research Assistant, ECIPE I have had an Argentine submarine livestream running in the background for days. Thousands of people watched as a pale-pink Dumbo octopus, one among...

The global trade environment is presently marked by deep uncertainty and rapid changes. Headlines range from new tariff threats launched under US President Donald Trump to announcements of opaque...

When discussing the issue of Europe’s waning competitiveness, analysts are almost instinctively driven to turn to the US for solutions. Draghi’s report on the future of European competitiveness,...

India has often been touted as the world’s largest democracy. As more than 900 million people went to vote in April the Indian electorate has chosen the right-wing Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) for a...

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)...

Focusing on proposed reforms of merger enforcement in Australia, this article discusses key issues highlighted by the Competition Taskforce and major changes recently proposed by the Australian...

Notwithstanding endless discussions and early data, Brexit cannot yet be definitively declared a success or failure. Those who would point to trade deals and independent regulatory policy as signs of...

Digital trade has grown very fast in recent years, not least because of Covid-19 and its push to do online business. The pandemic, according to one news story, “has accelerated digitalization and...

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...