In the movie “Gold”, a small, struggling mining entrepreneur looking for gold goes from bankruptcy to a 6 billion dollar mining empire, and then bankruptcy again. Bear with me, there is a link...

If there were to be another pandemic, what would you have done differently? This question should be at the front of any policy-maker. Covid-19 has been costly but some countries have coped better...

A US Presidential election always exerts quite a hold on the political world’s attention, but not often with personal stakes as high as they seem to be in 2020. Quite simply the entire rules-based...

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...

On May 28, ECIPE together with TradeExperettes, and Women in Trade Network hosted a webinar on EU trade policy after Covid-19. Sabine Weyand (European Commission), Luisa Santos (BusinessEurope), and...

On the 20th of March 2020, the EU made a big announcement. To help companies ramp up production on medical goods, 11 standards were made available for free. Anyone could download and read the EU...

Roberto Azevedo will have served diligently as Director-General of the World Trade Organization for seven years when he leaves office at the end of August 2020. No one can doubt his commitment to the...

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...

The world of trade will change for ever. Globalisation is dead. Supply chains will become shorter, and less complex. The nation state is back. Except for China, which is in big trouble. That’s a...