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Episode 48: What is Wrong with the German Economy? With Philipp Lamprecht
In this episode, Fredrik Erixon and Philipp Lamprecht talk about Germany and the German economy, and more specifically about Philipp's new paper – What is Wrong with the German Economy? The Case...
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Episode 45: Germany and The World of Yesterday with Leon Mangasarian
In a recent study for the London School of Economics called Germany and the world of yesterday, Leon Mangasarian argues that Germany's golden age of security is over and that it would need to...
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Episode 20: Germany and Global Economic Governance in an age of chaos with Claudia Schmucker
Fredrik Erixon talks to Dr Claudia Schmucker, the head of the Globalization and the World Economy programme at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), about the WTO, G7, G20 - and Germany’s...
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ECJ Safe Harbour Ruling Already Paves Way for Data Localisation in Germany
On 6 October 2015, EU-US Safe Harbour framework – the self-certification program for US firms according to the EU’s Data Protection Directive – was declared void by the ECJ. Is this a true...
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Behind Global Trade Statistics
Do you sometimes wonder about the world trade statistics, published by the WTO? Behind the headline numbers, there is a lot to explore … Until 1995, when the GATS was added to the corpus of...
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Spycraft or Economic Statecraft? The EU Won’t Scuttle Trade Talks with the U.S. over Espionage Allegations
(A shorter version was published on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal on July 5th, 2013) Kissinger famously asked, “Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” – well, if the...