Events
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ECIPE Seminar: The Political and Economic Power of Russian Energy in Europe: Who Is Really on Top?
Europe is dependent on Russian gas for its energy supply. Yet is Europe really so dependent that its energy import should influence its general policy vis-à-vis Russia? While the popular image suggests the Kremlin to get its way in Europe by wielding its energy weapon – e.g. threats of gas cuts – the reality is that Europe has an increasing capacity to substitute Russian gas. Russia, too, has an economic interest to avoid a disruption that could put the country’s heavy energy investments in Europe at risk.
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ECIPE Seminar: Cities and Urbanisation: Their Role for Technology, Trade, and Growth
Urbanisation, globalisation and technological change have re-shaped societies and the world economy in the past decades. Urbanisation is accelerating. Globalisation is perhaps retreating now, but is continuously boosted by new technology and its capacity to integrate economies more deeply with each other. How do these forces of development and change link up with each other – and how will they evolve in the future?
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ECIPE Seminar: The Sphynx and the Chimera: Antitrust Proceedings in the EU
Competition policy is a key policy area of the EU – and the power of competition policy to shape the structure of markets has grown. But is the power balanced by mechanisms or checks-and-balances to guarantee fair trials and other principles of constitutionalism?
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ECIPE Lunch Seminar: Energy Security and Economic Recovery: Impact of Ukraine, Fukushima, and Reforms on Japan and Europe
The world enters into a new-old paradigm where energy security and economic growth are closely entwined. Energy costs, access and variety of supply are now affecting a country’s competitiveness on the export markets, and are increasingly key strategic considerations for economic statecraft.
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ECIPE Seminar: The Diverging Path of French and Korean Film Industries: Lessons on Audiovisual Policy
In the last two years, the French audiovisual sector has witnessed an intense fight between the defensive and traditional vested interests against new forces that are eager to seize the opportunities presented by digital technology – This debate is taking place against a stagnating domestic market share of French movies despite a doubling of public subsidies. Based on some new exhaustive data, Patrick Messerlin’s new report assesses the failure of the current French audiovisual policy – from both an economic and cultural perspective.
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ECIPE Seminar: China, Europe and the World Economy: Imbalances and Reform
China has embarked on an economic reform programme to re-balance its economy and improve its prospects for stable and sustained economic growth. Any government with the ambition to reform the economy faces political obstacles. For China, still a heavily regulated economy with substantial government interference, the task is even bigger. What are its chances for success? What reforms are critical to deliver on its ambition? Can it get reform momentum with the assistance of global economic institutions like the WTO? And if China reforms itself successfully, what does it mean for EU-China economic relations?
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ECIPE Seminar: The Costs of Data Localisation
In response to revelations on mass online surveillance by foreign intelligence services, several governments are moving to restrict the free flow of data across borders. Whereas previous restrictions on the Internet aimed at keeping data out, this new breed of regulation aims to keep data inside state borders. Data localisation, i.e. the requirement that companies store and process personal data within the country in which they were collected, is being considered by policy-makers around the globe.
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Seminar: Services in TTIP
The EU and the US account for 40% of global trade in services, and one of the main rationale of TTIP was the prospects of raising the standards in services liberalisation. The recent news reports seem to suggest that any progress is yet to be delivered – despite the strong interests for comprehensible results on both sides of the Atlantic.
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ECIPE Conference: Cities and the Wealth of Nations: What do Global European Cities want from Trade Policy and TTIP?
Economic value is increasingly produced in global cities that can benefit from specialisation and other factors of grow. Similarly, global cities are increasingly vectors of global trade and commerce – the interface between a larger region and the world market. But we seldom speak about cities in trade policy – or think about cities as economic entities with special interests in trade policy.
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Brussels Book Launch: European Spring: Why our Economies and Politics are in a Mess – and How to Put Them Right
Europe needs new policies to boost growth and curb rising extremism, argues Philippe Legrain in a new powerful book. While EU policymakers may believe they have solved the crisis, in fact they misdiagnosed it and made it worse. The eurozone remains saddled with broken banks, crushing debts, feeble productivity growth and low investment. Many people have lost faith in the competence and motives of politicians and EU technocrats, while support for the EU has plunged to all-time lows, leaving the door open to extremists and charlatans. That's why we desperately need a European Spring: economic and political renewal.