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Industrial Policy: Europe’s (Second) Hamiltonian Moment
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...
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“What’s next for sustainability – How can future trade policies promote sustainable agriculture and food production?”
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...
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ECIPE Summer Book List
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,...
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On ants, dinosaurs, and how to survive a trade apocalypse
Palaeontologists have long recognised that unexpected but hugely devastating events can change life on Earth forever. A common theory suggests that a huge asteroid that hit the Earth around 65...
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‘Urgent Need to Review the Mobility Package 1 proposals’ says EU transport sector
The European Parliament Transport Committee continues working on the Mobility Package 1 despite the ongoing coronavirus crisis that led to confinement measures introduced by many European...
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Of debt and disease.
A street pharmacy in Tanzania (from author’s own archives) Debt relief is not a panacea to tackle the pandemic in the developing countries In midst of the corona-crisis, the world's twenty largest...
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A Global Agreement on Medical Equipment and Supplies to fight COVID-19
The trade answer to the coronavirus crisis has been a mix of openness and protectionism. Countries have lowered import duties (examples here, here, and here), imposed export restrictions (here and...
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Trade policy and COVID-19: Openness and cooperation in times of a pandemic
Covid-19 has hit the world very hard in general and some regions so far in particular (e.g. China, Europe, US) over the past three months. The deep level of interconnectedness between countries and...
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Globalisation after COVID-19
It is certain that the world will overcome the COVID-19 crisis, as much as it is certain that in the aftermath the world will look different with regards to global trade. International trade patterns...
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A Global Effort to Win the War Against COVID-19
We are at war. But this war is different. There is no visible enemy, no border, no ideological divide. And yet, as in the past century’s conflicts, our lifestyle changed, our habits are hit by...