ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon talks to Professor Jonathan Barnett, from the University of Southern California, about his recent book The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual...

Seven may be a divine number, but even sacred things deserve scrutiny. It took the EU seven years to begin rethinking its regulatory holy grail: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)....

Making sense of daily trade policy turbulence has become a major challenge. President Trump is just one part of a complex ever-changing picture. Stop the world to catch up is an understandable...

In mid-September, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung had a remarkable interview with Gabriele Mazzini, a scholar at the MIT Media Lab, about the EU’s new AI Act. It isn’t remarkable for...

Europe's flirtation with digital services taxes (DSTs) appears to be cooling. In July 2025, the European Commission dropped its proposed digital levy from EU budget plans, largely in response to US...

Background The political agreement on the EU-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in July was rushed by political optics, including Trump-era tariffs and pressure to compete...

In her State of the Union address, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen touched on nearly every aspect of European life, including the economy. She spoke about housing shortages, energy bills,...

Fortunately, recent times have seen senior European leaders giving more support to new trade agreements than we have been used to in the past decade. The ratification process of the EU-Mercosur...

At one year old, most babies begin to stand on their own feet. Some walk, others wobble, but all start exploring the world under their own strength. Today, the Draghi report turns one. Yet it remains...

Initiatives to dismantle/redesign/reform the WTO (delete whichever is inapplicable according to your preference) continue apace. Towards one end of the spectrum, USTR Jamieson Greer writes (in a...