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Past Events

  • ECIPE Afternoon Seminar: Where Was Services Trade Liberalised: FTA or the WTO?

    Venue: EICPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, 1040
    Speakers: Erik van der Marel, Lucian Cernat
    Time: 14:30

    Liberalisation of trade in services is currently not progressing under the Doha round of trade negotiations. Instead, plurilateral and regional agreements have currently become the most common way to advance liberalisation and co-operation. In relation to this, the European Commission recently requested a mandate from the Council to engage in negotiations on a new plurilateral international agreement on trade in services (ISA). 


  • ECIPE Lunch Seminar: The Globalisation of Supply Chains: What are the Consequences for Trade-policy Strategies?

    Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, Brussels
    Speakers: Professor Reinhard Quick
    Time: 12:30

    One of the driving forces of trade expansion in the past two decades has been the globalisation and fragmentation of supply chains in international business. Recently, a new data base by the WTO and the OECD has shed lights on how transformative this force has been, reinforcing the anecdotal and scattered evidence existing before. But what are the implications for trade-policy strategy? How should strategies to free up trade and establish stronger disciplines be designed as to fit with how global trade work today?

  • USD, EUR, and RMB: Will the Crisis Spawn a Tripolar Currency System?

    Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, Brussels
    Speakers: Miriam L Campanella
    Time: 14:30

    No doubt the world economy is undergoing some profound structural changes. Even if the crises in the past years have been felt everywhere, rising and globalising Asia – together with some economies in other parts of the world – has continued its rapid economic expansion. It represents a large portion of global production, trade and investment – and the lion share of world growth for the rest of this decade is estimated by the International Monetary Fund and others to be generated in Asia.

  • ECIPE Afternoon Seminar: How to Respond to Argentinas Return to Economic Nationalism?

    Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, 1040 Brussels
    Speakers: Lisa Brandt, , Fredrik Erixon
    Time: 15:00

    The Argentinean government’s intentions to strengthen national industries and stabilise its current accounts have led to irresponsible trade and investment policies. Various forms of import restrictions are lined up and international investment rules are ignored by the Argentinean government.

  • ECIPE Lunch Seminar: Market Integration in the Far-East: Global Implications of TPP, RCEP, and CJK

    Venue: Science14 Atrium, Rue de la Science 14b, 1040 Bruxelles
    Speakers: Guy de Jonquières, Kenichi Kawasaki, Heesang Kim, Peter Berz (TBC)
    Time: 12:30

    2013 is set to be a crucial year for market integration in the Asia-Pacific. The launch of the TPP negotiations will be followed by RCEP (ASEAN plus Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea and New Zealand) announced at the East Asia Summit in November, together with the surprise announcement of the three-party FTA between China, Japan and Korea (CJK).

  • ECIPE Afternoon Seminar: The Internationalisation of the Renminbi – Will It Become a Major Reserve Currency?

    Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, 1040 Brussels
    Speakers: Sylvain Plasschaert
    Time: 15:30

    The rise of the Renminbi (RMB) as a key currency in international financial markets has been fast. It reflects China’s general expansion in the ‘real’ world economy, and its accumulation of official foreign exchange reserves. There is no doubt that the role of the RMB for the global economy will increase. Just three decades ago, that seemed like a very remote notion. The question now is if the RMB will assume a pivotal role as an instrument for transactions in international trade and investment as well as, ultimately, as a reserve currency.

  • ECIPE-ESF Afternoon Seminar – Leading with Services: Trade and Investment Integration between Europe and Taiwan

    Venue: Science14 Atrium, Rue de la Science 14b, 1040, Bruxelles
    Speakers: Thomas Harris, , Francis Liang, Patrick Messerlin, Pascal Kerneis
    Time: 15:00

    Greater openness to trade and investment with Asian growth economies would help to boost Europe’s services sector. A particularly interesting market for European firms is Taiwan. Its services market has grown fast in the past decades, and today Taiwan is increasingly becoming a hub for services firms trading with other countries in the region. This is particularly true for trade with China as the cross-Strait rapprochement has opened up for new opportunities of regional services integration in East Asia. Many other countries are now moving to be part of this integration. What should be Europe’s response?

  • ECIPE Lunch Seminar: The EU & the Asia-Pacific region: Ambassadors of Australia, Indonesia and Japan

    Venue: Goethe-Institut, Rue Belliard 58, 1040 Brussels
    Speakers: H.E. Dr Brendan Nelson,, H.E. Arif Havas Oegroseno, , H.E. Kojiro Shiojiri, , Hosuk Lee-Makiyama,
    Time: 12:00

    It is said that we live in the Age of Asia – the global economy is increasingly dependent on Asian markets and political attention is swinging to the Asian-Pacific region. The latter is especially true with respects to business and trade. With the potential for a TPP or RCEP (regional agreement centred around ASEAN), a new regional architecture is emerging

  • ECIPE Lunch Seminar: The Future of the World Trade Organization

    Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, B-1040 Brussels
    Speakers: Stuart Harbinson
    Time: 12:30

    These are dangerous times for the multilateral trading system. Never since its establishment in 1995 has the World Trade Organization been in such a perilous state. The shambolic 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference previously represented the nadir in the fortunes of the organization but it rallied quickly afterwards and launched the Doha Round just two years later. Now no such recovery is in prospect. Dispute settlement apart, the WTO scene is characterised largely by drift and neglect, with no apparent light at the end of the tunnel. How did this state of affairs come about, and what are the potential consequences for the global trading system?

  • ECIPE Afternoon Seimar: Why did ACTA fail?

    Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, B-1040 Brussels
    Speakers: Professor Luciano Floridi, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
    Time: 14:00

    ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) was meant to enforce and harmonise IPR provisions in existing trade agreements within a wider group of countries, yet its implementation failed in Europe when European Parliament rejected this trade agreement earlier in July.