I’m not a coronavirus expert. Trade, economics and politics is my field. I had to look up the spelling of epidemiologist for this article and I’m definitely not one. But just as trade deals are...

The economic impact of the coronavirus or COVID-19 will be dramatic and long-lasting. Governments across the world have put in place extraordinary economic measures to support their health systems...

Industrial policy is back on the European agenda. Inside the European Commission headquarters, policy makers are fiercely discussing the instruments, sectors, and ways of funding for a new European...

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...

Services have long been thought to suffer from a productivity problem. In fact, there is a long-standing concern that services add little to the economy. Particularly compared to manufacturing, which...

On January 22, the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and ECIPE hosted a seminar on the accountability and transparency of the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) funded by the EU. The...

In December 2019, after several years of curious negotiations, EU policymakers have agreed on a hazardous consensus on new rules for the EU’s CO2-intensive road freight transport sector. The...

On November 26, Niklas Elert, an economics scholar at the Swedish Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) presented 'The Entrepreneurial Society – A Reform Strategy for the European...

Introduction The result of the UK General Election means that the UK will leave the EU at the end of January 2020, ending at least four years of uncertainty on that particular question. The wider...

Now that he took office, no shortage of work awaits Mr Hogan, the new EU Trade Commissioner. We review some of his key challenges. ‘I always seem to inherit a job when things are not going too...