Insights (Filter: EU)
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European Strategic Autonomy – What Role for Europe’s Fragmented Single Market?
By: Matthias Bauer30 years after the establishment of the European Single Market, regulatory convergence reversed or came to a halt in the EU. This lack of integration...
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Sender-Pays: Rethinking Incentives for Infrastructure Investments
By Robin Baker and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama Summary As the Sending Party Network Pays debate resurfaces, the question of whether users and senders should...
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The Costs of the EU’s Strategic Autonomy Agenda – Why Member States Should Stop Ignoring Them
By: Matthias BauerThe EU is pushing a controversial policy paradigm: strategic autonomy. The term is increasingly institutionalised. It is commonly referred to in...
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Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Moves to Trilogue: Potential Impact on Trade and WTO Compatibility Still Unclear
By: Elena SistoIntroduction On June 22nd, the European Parliament and Council of the EU submitted amendments to the European Commission’s proposal for an EU...
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The L’Oréal Principle: How the EU Leverages Its Single Market for Its Trade Policy Objectives
Products of the skincare company L’Oréal have been marketed over the years using the self-reassuring tag line “because you’re worth it”. The...
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The Hidden Complexities of the UK Government Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
By: David HenigThe publication of the UK government’s Northern Ireland Protocol Bill appears to have brought UK-EU relations to a new low ebb, with trade war an...
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Check Mate to the Rules of the Game
By: Oscar GuineaThis piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development. “The king is an...
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TTC and Pre-Empting the Next Transatlantic Tech War
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama and Robin Baker Admittedly, the trading relationship between the EU and the U.S. has never been an easy one. Since the late...
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While We Look at the TTC Progress, a Risk May Rise Elsewhere
By: Matthias BauerAs top policymakers from both sides of the Atlantic gather near Paris on Sunday for the second ministerial meeting of the EU-US Trade &...
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The Data Act Proposal: Assessing the EU’s Latest Digital Policy Experiment
By: Matthias BauerECIPE just launched a new research program on the economic impacts of the EU’s Data Act proposal. We hereby invite interested stakeholders to...
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Power to Ukraine: Rebuilding Ukraine’s Electricity System
This piece was co-authored with Dr.-Ing. Manuel Sánchez Jiménez, the former Team Leader for Smart Grids at the European Commission and currently...
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How to Win Friends and Influence People: EU Sanctions, Trade Distortions, and the Case for Reviving Economic Diplomacy
The response of the West to the Russian war in Ukraine has been to isolate the Russian economy. And although it might seem like they have been...