Insights (Filter: trade)
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China’s Expanding Influence in the Western Balkans: Why Montenegro Matters
In recent years, powers such as Russia and China increased their economic and political presence in the Western Balkans. It is evident that the EU is...
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Decision-Time – The 2025 UK Trade Policy Stocktake
By: David HenigDelivering an EU reset amid the tumult likely to follow the re-election of President Trump makes 2025 a year when the UK government must make trade...
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Europe and the Second Trump Administration: Uncertainties, Risks and Frictions in Trade and Technology
By: Fredrik ErixonAs Europe now ponders the next four years with Donald Trump in the White House, the dominant thought seems to be that he's yet again got his eyes on...
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Europe’s Renewed Trade Policy Challenge
By: David HenigPresident Trump’s return to the White House means that trade policy will return to prominence. For one thing we know for certain is that he...
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The Case for Expanding the EU’s Transatlantic Relations
By: Renata ZilliIn 1917, in the aftermath of the sinking of U.S. merchant ships, President Woodrow Wilson told Congress in his request for a declaration of war on...
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Trade Relationship Status: Open
If international trade had a Facebook profile, its status would be ‘in an open relationship’. On average, a country trades goods with 164 other...
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Who is Afraid of Global Trade?
There is a growing narrative in international trade that globalisation is causing increased concentration of production and that countries are...
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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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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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Three Challenges for the New EU Trade Commissioner
Now that he took office, no shortage of work awaits Mr Hogan, the new EU Trade Commissioner. We review some of his key challenges. ‘I always seem...
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Time Is Running Out to Address Trade Frictions. For Effective WTO Reform to Happen, the US, EU and China Need to Live Up to Their Responsibilities
All three of the WTO’s functions - administering multilateral trade rules, serving as a forum for trade negotiations, and providing a mechanism to...