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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...
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Episode 16: Understanding the crisis at the WTO with Roderick Abbott
Fredrik Erixon talks to Roderick Abbott, Senior Adviser at ECIPE and former Deputy Director-General of the WTO and EU ambassador to Geneva. They discuss the crisis in the WTO's appellate body. What...
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Episode 15: After Brexit – What’s next for EU-UK relations?
This week we bring you the live recording of ECIPE Seminar: After Brexit – What’s next for EU-UK relations? The UK left the EU on 31 January. The transition period running to December 31 means...
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Episode 14: How to reform Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO? With Inu Manak
Fredrik Erixon talks to Inu Manak, a Visiting Fellow at the Cato Institute, about Special and Differential Treatment (SDT) in the WTO. The current SDT regime has led President Trump to tweet that the...