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Episode 9: How damaging can populism be to the EU after the Elections? With Heather Grabbe
Fredrik Erixon talks to Heather Grabbe, the Director of the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels. They discuss the possible damage nationalists and populists could do to the EU if...
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Fake News and How to Use Twitter in a Meaningful Way for Policy Debates: Lessons from the European Commission’s “Digital Tax” Campaign
Are the EU’s institutions superior to national administrations in formulating policies on the basis of data, facts and empirical evidence? Or are they equally prone to ideological impulses and...
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The Juncker Gambit
Juncker is taking a gamble. Creating this new investment fund was a signature promise to voters in the European election, and now he is putting a proposal to EU member states that they may not like...
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The Politics of TTIP – What are the Key Controversies, How to Address Them?
The recent conference organised by ECIPE on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that the EU and the US are currently negotiating led to a very stimulating debate. We had four...
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Cracking the Mainstream Notion of Fiscal Competition
by Maria Salfi (Intern at ECIPE) There is a general widespread notion within the European Union that a lower corporate tax rate can harm society. In fact, the European Commission strongly...
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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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Barroso’s Faustian Bargain
Expectations run high as José Manuel Barroso took the floor in the European Parliament last week to give his annual State-of-the-Union address, aptly titled “European renewal”. Sandwiched...