On May 28, ECIPE together with TradeExperettes, and Women in Trade Network hosted a webinar on EU trade policy after Covid-19. Sabine Weyand (European Commission), Luisa Santos (BusinessEurope), and...

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” Mark Twain After the rushed decisions taken in early March by many EU member states in response to the COVID-19...

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 dramatic drop in trade volume due to the economic...

On the 20th of March 2020, the EU made a big announcement. To help companies ramp up production on medical goods, 11 standards were made available for free. Anyone could download and read the EU...

Small and Medium Entreprises (SMEs) represent two-thirds of total employment in Europe. Over the years, their role in economic growth and business activity has been expanding. In this episode,...

The pandemic has put great challenges to firms and the leadership of organisations. In this episode, Fredrik Erixon talks to Darci Vetter, a senior executive at Edelman and former lead trade...

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...

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...

A street pharmacy in Tanzania (from author’s own archives) Debt relief is not a panacea to tackle the pandemic in the developing countries In midst of the corona-crisis, the world's twenty largest...

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...