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Compulsory Licensing of IP-protected Drugs: Colombia’s Panacea for Access to Better Healthcare Services?
On 30 May 2018, Colombia joined the OECD as the group’s 37th member. Prior to the country’s accession, the Colombian government implemented a number of reforms aimed at modernising its economy...
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Who are the good, the bad, and the ugly? Not what Mr. Boris Johnson thinks.
When announcing his “Better Plan for Brexit” in The Daily Telegraph, Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson observed “that the one size fits all EU model of regulation—according to the...
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The Cost of Data Protectionism
* This blog is written together with Janez Kren, PhD candidate at the University of Leuven, who is a co-author of one of the studies presented below. Policymakers today have the difficult...
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L’insoutenable légèreté de la décision de l’Institut Français de Séoul en Corée : La disparition de la Médiathèque à Séoul
« C’est avec beaucoup d’humilité que je viens aujourd’hui dans ce lieu essayer de vous parler de francophonie ». Si je reprends, avec encore plus d’humilité, cette première phrase du...
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Are Services Really Not Helping the Economy?
Bullocks! That is the conclusion that came to me when I participated in the roundtable conference on services and economic development in Tokyo last week. This conference was organized by the Asian...
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China’s Growing Soft Power: Should Europe Protect its Cultural Industries?
One of the notable aspects of China’s foreign policy in recent years has been the increasing focus on developing soft power. Beijing has arguably invested more in this area than any other country...
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EU Services Part I
The issue of immigration is currently a hot debated topic and is often put in connection with globalisation and the current political backlash. Both are actually two sides of the same coin. If goods...
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The “Winning Cards” in the Digital Era: Internet, Smart Devices, and Online Network Services
It was the “Walkman” which transformed Sony from a relatively unknown small company in the 1970s to the prominent global giant that we know today. Given its popular reputation, it is remarkable...
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Beyond Geo-blocking: “Gangnam Style” is not just for Gangnam
“Gangnam Style” by Psy has been a seemingly unstoppable musical force around the world. With over 2.5 billion clicks (as of February 2016) this song has been YouTube's most watched video since...
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A Race Against Time: New Data Protection Rules in the Internet Era
It was about time. Pre-internet rules on data protection were not fit for our new interconnected reality. The core institutions of the European Union have finally set in stone an agreement which...