A question that is haunting the EU and other key trading partners of the United States is whether they should retaliate against Trump’s tariff assault. So far, the EU’s response to the Trump...

On this episode of the Global Economy Podcast, Fredrik Erixon speaks with ECIPE's Chief Economist, Erik van der Marel, about the consequences of the Trump administration's threat to impose tariffs,...

There was a small sigh of relief in the UK when President Trump finally reached the country in his tariff scoreboard revealing the lowest possible number of 10%. Limited, because with 25% on steel,...

“There are weeks when decades happen”, Lenin famously said. The first two weeks of April this year have been such an event: major foundations of the global economic order have been shaken. The...

The EU should act – now – to offer and call for a zero-tariff agreement with the United States. It should put the proposal on the table unilaterally, without waiting for permission from...

On April 2nd – sorry, Liberation Day – President Trump revealed his new package of “reciprocal tariffs”. There has already been a lot of commentary and analysis by economists and others, and...

Hannes Berggren, Trade Policy Advisor, National Board of Trade Sweden On 2 April, the Trump administration expanded its costly trade war by introducing new discriminatory measures under a scheme it...

To celebrate the 100th episode of the ECIPE Global Economy Podcast, host Fredrik Erixon welcomes Inu Manak, a distinguished trade policy expert and follow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in...

My thesis in this essay is that we now live in an era of anti-economics. Just like antimatter is the opposite of ordinary matter, the Western public policy discourse now seems permeated by...

The political relations between the EU and China are deteriorating. They may not be on such a clear path towards fraction and decoupling as the US-China relation, but the writing is on the wall....