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East African Community and the EU’s Economic Partnership Agreement: Do African Countries Suffer from the Victim Complex?
By Maria Salfi (Intern at ECIPE) A week has passed and the deadline to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) missed. African countries are at the borderline, giving up 12 years of...
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#ECIPEdebates: Will Malmström Change the Course of EU Trade Policy?
Following the nomination of Cecilia Malmström as the new European Commissioner for Trade, ECIPE asked its Twitter followers whether the new Commission would change the course of EU trade policy. In...
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EU Reform and the European Parliament Elections
There is a confusing debate going on about how to interpret last week’s European elections. A fairly considerable body of opinion suggests that the rise of the populists, extremists and protest...
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After the Election: Business as Usual
The elections to the European Parliament hardly produced unexpected results. All the polls in the past weeks have shown that Front National and the UK Independence Party were close to becoming the...
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The New Parliament and Economic Challenges
I was asked by the CASS Journal in China to give a few thoughts on what economic issues that the new European Parliament should address. Here's the short piece: The new European Parliament that...
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The Costs of Data Localization
In the aftermath of recent revelations on mass-scale electronic surveillance, there has been a widespread proliferation of internet restrictions. One of the most drastic, yet a common policy response...