The German car manufacturer Daimler recently announced plans to set up its own recycling factory and to increase the share of recyclable parts of its cars production. BMW made similar plans public in...

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...

By Dr. Christian Häberli, World Trade Institute Products with Geographical Indications (GI) are a common feature of everyday life, from Parma hams to Georgian wine appellations, Swiss Gruyère,...

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...

In a recent LinkedIn post, my colleague Hosuk Lee-Makiyama asked why so many policymakers in Europe are concerned with digital sovereignty when the vast majority of value added in digital services is...

Last year, NASA launched its first human space mission from US soil since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011. For almost a decade, US astronauts had been dependent on Russian Soyuz...

The European Commission is reviving industrial policy – or so we are told. A year ago it released a communication on a new industrial strategy for the EU and it is due to present an update of the...

Thanks to Anna Guildea for helpful comments. Alexander Hamilton, Europe’s new inspirational hero, not just because EU members have agreed to issue debt collectively for the first time, but...

On 10 November 2020, ECIPE held a webinar titled “What’s next for sustainability – How can future trade policies promote sustainable agriculture and food production?” In the context of the...

We asked ECIPE experts to help compile a list of books to read over the summer. The goal was to recommend literature that helps readers make sense of the troubled times we are living in right now,...