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Episode 26: What is stopping trucks at borders between EU member States? With Joanna Jasiewicz
In the outbreak of COVID-19, the EU international freight traffic was close to collapsing with the obstruction of trucks from delivering goods to supermarkets in dire need of replenishing their...
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Episode 25: The necessary steps in International Trade and the Single Market with Anna Stellinger
Fredrik Erixon talks to Anna Stellinger, the Deputy Director General at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise responsible for International and EU Affairs. They discuss trade and border issues...
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Episode 24: The virus and the World with Johan Norberg
In this episode, Fredrik Erixon talks to Johan Norberg, a leading advocate of globalisation and author of Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future. His latest book, which has only...
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Episode 23: Why Special Taxes on Digital Services Hurt Everyone with Matthias Bauer
In recent years, policy-makers in Europe have argued in favour of creating a new corporate tax for digital companies. They claim that digital companies (like Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon) do...
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Episode 22: Why is Europe’s Centre-right dying? With Dalibor Rohac
Fredrik Erixon talks to Dalibor Rohac, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of In Defense of Globalism, about the crisis in the centre-right in Europe. In a recent...
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Episode 21: Protectionism before, during, and after the Coronavirus Pandemic with Simon Evenett
A recently published report by the Global Trade Alert warns to a sharp rise in barriers to exporting medical supplies needed to counteract the spread of coronavirus. These barriers are putting...
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Episode 20: Germany and Global Economic Governance in an age of chaos with Claudia Schmucker
Fredrik Erixon talks to Dr Claudia Schmucker, the head of the Globalisation and the World Economy programme at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), about the WTO, G7, G20 - and Germany’s...
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Episode 19: Understanding Barriers to Digital Trade with Erik van der Marel
At a time where digital trade is the fastest growing component of all trade flows, barriers to digital trade are also rising. Fredrik Erixon talks to Erik van der Marel, Senior Economist at ECIPE...
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Episode 18: How is the EU setting standards around the World? With Anu Bradford
Fredrik Erixon talks to Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School, about her new book "The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules...
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Episode 17: How much do people trust Government, Media, NGOs and Business? With Ambassador Darci Vetter
Fredrik Erixon talks to Ambassador Darci Vetter, Global Lead of Public Affairs and Vice Chair of Agriculture, Food and Trade for Edelman and former Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the U.S. Trade...