Insights (Filter: Covid-19)
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Intellectual Property and COVID-19
By: Guest AuthorBy Dr. Kevin E. Noonan, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP The current SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID pandemic is the greatest global health...
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The Phantom Menace that Threatens European Trade
This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development. In the last quarter of...
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Mercosur in the Mediterranean: An Opportunity for Post COVID-19 Growth?
By: Guest AuthorJan Micallef - EU and International Trade Specialist, Former Trade Attaché at the Permanent Representation of Malta to the European Union The...
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COVID, Trade, the G20, WTO and Oscar Wilde
By: Stuart Harbinson‘Buy American’, ‘Dual Circulation’, ‘Strategic Autonomy’ – these, and similar ideas, have been around or in gestation for some...
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Preparing for COVID-20
By: Oscar GuineaIf 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...
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On Ants, Dinosaurs, and How to Survive a Trade Apocalypse
Palaeontologists have long recognised that unexpected but hugely devastating events can change life on Earth forever. A common theory suggests that a...
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EU Trade Policy for a Post-COVID World
By: Natalia MacyraOn May 28, ECIPE together with TradeExperettes, and Women in Trade Network hosted a webinar on EU trade policy after Covid-19. Sabine Weyand...
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European Society and Economy after Covid-19
By: Natalia Macyra“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” Mark Twain After the rushed decisions taken in early March by...
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Trade in Time of Corona: What’s Next for the EU?
The European Commission updated its trade forecasts for 2020 which followed the WTO’s estimates for this and next year. Both reports agree on a...
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The Right Kind of Standard to Fight a Pandemic
By: Oscar GuineaOn 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...
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Of Debt and Disease.
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...
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A Global Agreement on Medical Equipment and Supplies to fight COVID-19
By: Oscar GuineaThe trade answer to the coronavirus crisis has been a mix of openness and protectionism. Countries have lowered import duties (examples here, here,...