Insights (Filter: France)
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France and Germany: Transforming Challenges into Leadership Opportunities
By: Matthias BauerFrance and Germany are Europe’s largest economies. Their collaboration has historically been a catalyst for change, often establishing benchmarks...
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EU-China Relations – A Health Report After Xi’s Visit and New EV Tariffs
By: Andrea DugoThe political relations between the EU and China are deteriorating. They may not be on such a clear path towards fraction and decoupling as the...
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EU Freight Cabotage: Will France Manage to Kick Eastern Europe out of the EU’s Single Market?
By: Matthias BauerCurrent EU law severely restricts the transport of goods within a Member State by a truck operator from a foreign EU country. What is known as...
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Why Italy Fails and Swedish Economists are Smug
Our friends at Bruegel posted a nice piece called "Why does Italy not grow?" which I missed when it was first published (until a chronically...
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Railways Derailing EU-Japan Talks?
Since the mid-2000s, the EU has made the opening of public procurement markets one of its key priorities in the WTO and in the bilateral agreements...
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Threats to the European Way of Life (part 4)
Tags: FranceI wrote here about the French peculiar ban against online booking of taxis. Well, yesterday our friends at the FT report that the law has been...
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More Threats to European Way of Life (part 3): Movies on Smartphones.
No rest for the wicked – after declaring war on books and taxis, it took the Hollande government less than a week to come back with a new tax on...
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Taxis and Taxes: More “Threats” to the European Way of Life? (part II)
A couple of days before Brussels shut down for winter holidays, I was reached by an email that my op-ed on internet taxation in France and Italy is...
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Spycraft or Economic Statecraft? The EU Won’t Scuttle Trade Talks with the U.S. over Espionage Allegations
(A shorter version was published on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal on July 5th, 2013) Kissinger famously asked, “Who do I...