Fredrik Erixon talks to Oscar Guinea, a senior economist at ECIPE. On the back of their new study Standing Up for Competition: Market Concentration, Regulation, and Europe’s Quest for a New...

Picture the 100 meters final in the Olympic Games. 30 meters before the end, Usain Bolt starts to slow down. With five meters to go, all the runners hold hands and cross the finish line at the very...

On our first episode, Fredrik Erixon talks to David Henig, the director of the UK Trade Policy Project. The discussion focuses on the future of EU-U.K. trade relations, whether Britain will be a free...

Last year was a difficult year for free trade and the international rules-based system. No doubt the US played an important role in this: It threatened old trade partners like Canada and the EU with...

Stricter rules on online platforms restrain potential trade, especially for smaller businesses. This is because online platforms facilitate export and import by lowering transaction and information...

By Tim Yu, a cybersecurity and technology policy analyst based in Hong Kong Over recent years, there has been a concerted effort from Asian regulators to ramp up their data protection regimes. In...

In general, it is easy to agree with the concept of cultural exception that France has for many years evoked. Such an approach is based on the idea that cultural goods are different from other...

Earlier this month MEPs voted to support the final text on the free flow of non-personal data across the European Union (EU). A vast majority of the European Parliament voted in favour of this new...

This is a summary of a discussion that took place at the ECIPE and Microsoft Seminar, on October 15th 2018 in Brussels.  The growth of the digital economy has clearly benefited Europe...

When announcing his “Better Plan for Brexit” in The Daily Telegraph, Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson observed “that the one size fits all EU model of regulation—according to the...