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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...