Events
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ECIPE Afternoon Discussion: What Can Be Achieved at the Paris UN Climate Change Meeting? An Asian Perspective
Asian and European approaches to climate change differ. Can a new global climate change accord accommodate both?
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ECIPE Seminar: TTIP, TPP and the Rise of Mega-Regionals – Consequences for Africa
Is the rise of mega-regionals a threat to Africa's capacity to grow through trade?
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ECIPE Seminar: Whither Investment Protection in EU Policy?
Is there a case to reform investment protection?
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Lunch Event – TPP: A Challenge to Europe
The regional economic architecture is rapidly evolving in the Asia-Pacific, shaped by a plethora of alphabet soup mega-plurilaterals of TPP, RCEP and FTAAP. The world outside Brussels is increasingly convinced that TPP in particular, and the Asia-Pacific region in general will be the new agenda-setting pillar, and the first ‘competing’ economic integration that is large enough to have a considerable negative impact on the EU.
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ECIPE Seminar: The Politics of Trade in the United States
The November election to the Congress brought the Republicans in control of both the Senate and the House. Trade press are ripe with opinions about how the election will change the politics of trade in the U.S. for the better – and that there should now be a forceful attempt by the Administration and the Congress to establish a new Trade Promotion Authority that allows the U.S. to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership to an end and revive the TTIP negotiations. At the same time, both parties are not far away from starting the nomination process for the 2016 presidential race – a process that will see both sides playing for the gallery of their parties. Given the charged relation between the Administration and the Republicans on a host of other issues, what are the chances that they are willing to take a pause from adversarial politics in order to get a deal on trade policy?
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ECIPE Seminar: Reset, Re-think, Re-orientation? EU and U.S. Approaches to China
The direction of China’s economic and strategic policy will set the tone of the 21st century. And under President Xi, there has been a shift in tone – and in the country’s general aspiration to fashion an economic and strategic approach to its neighbours and the world.
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ECIPE in cooperation with SIIA: Understanding the Value of Transatlantic Data Flows
The most globally significant bilateral trade and investment relationship is between the U.S. and the European Union. An increasing amount of this economic relationship is underpinned by cross-border flows of data.
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ECIPE Seminar: Can Plurilateralism Save the Bali Agreement on Trade Facilitation?
The new package of trade accords that was concluded at the World Trade Organisation’s Bali Ministerial Meeting late last year was a fresh start for the battered international trade body. Yet defeat has been snatched from the jaws of victory. A small number of countries refuses to agree on a protocol for the Bali deal on trade facilitation – and the entire agreement is now endangered.
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ECIPE Seminar: Going Zombi – Japanese Lessons for the Eurozone
Most Eurozone countries hit by the crisis find it hard to recover. Many economic indicators signal that there still are profound problems, if not a crisis. Government debt continues to rise while businesses reduce their credit exposure and struggle to grow and invest. Recession and deflation fears grow. The ECB continues to flood financial markets with low-cost liquidity, but investors do not celebrate it much. After a time of rosy optimism about the monetary union’s future economic development, consumer and business sentiment recently turned bleak – reflecting the dim prospects of the economy.
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ECIPE Conference: The Politics of TTIP – What are the Key Controversies, How to Address them?
TTIP has run into opposition. Governments and NGOs in Europe are calling for key planks of the talks, such as investor protection, to be discharged. The political temperature of TTIP may be lower in the US, but key Congressional leaders and constituencies have their red lines too – with issues like intellectual property and trademarks becoming big concerns.