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Episode 78: IP in the EU FTA’s Series: Relevance of IP for the Innovative Pharmaceutical Industry with Nathalie Moll
In this online conversation, Jacki Davis talks to Nathalie Moll, Director-General of EFPIA – the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, which supported the...
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Three Seas Initiative: Instrument for Decreasing Dependency on Russian Energy
Lilianna Ziedins, a student of Economics and International Studies at the American University, and an intern at ECIPE between January and April 2022. The conflict in Ukraine has accelerated the...
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IP in EU Agriculture: Geographical Indications
By Dr. Christian Häberli, World Trade Institute Products with Geographical Indications (GI) are a common feature of everyday life, from Parma hams to Georgian wine appellations, Swiss Gruyère,...
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Episode 77: IP in the EU FTA’s Series: IP and the Sustainable Agri-food Sector with Olivier de Matos
In this online conversation, Jacki Davis talks to Olivier de Matos, the Director-General of CropLife Europe, which represents providers of innovative farm solutions. One of the...
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Protect Ukraine – Protect Europe!
The war in Europe has now been raging for more than a month. Day by day, it is becoming more violent. Lives of innocent people are sacrificed because of Vladimir Putin’s malicious desire to restore...
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EU’s Dependency Problem on Russian Oil and Gas
Russia’s war on Ukraine has started a new discussion about Europe’s energy dependency on Russia. In an upcoming ECIPE policy brief, we develop a conceptual framework and indicators to measure...
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Intellectual Property and Biodiversity
The EU-Colombia, Peru, Ecuador FTA is the EU FTA that contains most intellectual property provisions of all EU FTAs regarding the protection of ‘traditional knowledge and genetic resources’...
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Episode 76: IP in the EU FTA’s Series: How to support IP-intensive sectors via the EU FTAs with Filip Geerts
In this online conversation, Jacki Davis talks to Filip Geerts, the Director-General of CECIMO, the European Association of the Machine Tool Industries and related Manufacturing Technologies. This...
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Thoughts on EU Trade Policy after Ukraine
With the rapidity of events in the last month full analysis of the long-term implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for global politics or economics feels premature, especially given the...
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Digital Sovereignty Revisited
In a recent LinkedIn post, my colleague Hosuk Lee-Makiyama asked why so many policymakers in Europe are concerned with digital sovereignty when the vast majority of value added in digital services is...