Events
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ECIPE Lunch Seminar: Russia’s Counter-Sanctions – Are They Hurting the European Economy?
Trade sanctions between the European Union and Russia have reduced bilateral trade. But have Russia’s counter-sanctions hurt Europe’s trade?
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ECIPE Afternoon Seminar: Trade Policy 2.0 – Upgrading from National Trade Surpluses to Firm-Level Performance
The fact that companies increasingly expand to international markets and suppliers is hardly new, not least amongst SMEs.
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Jan Tumlir Lecture: The New World of Trade – What Is the New Shape of World Trade – and What Does It Entail for Global Trade Policy?
ECIPE cordially invites you to the Third Jan Tumlir Honorary Lecture with Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the World Trade Organisation and EU Trade Commissioner.
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ECIPE Lunch Seminar: ISDS and Schizophrenia in the EU about International Law
Can national courts really substitute arbitrational tribunals in in investor-state disputes?
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ECIPE Afternoon Seminar: Exploring the Global Value Chains space for the EU
This seminar discusses where exactly countries are positioned within the GVC space and which policy measures are most important to explain each of these countries’ position on the GVC diagram.
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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?