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ECIPE Intern post: "A new look at NTBs in trade agreements"
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Participants of the ECIPE internship programmes are required to publish a piece on the ECIPE blog before the end of their internship, and following post is a submission by Oscar Guinea Ibanez. He joined the ECIPE internship programme after a tenure a...
A trade policy of least common denominators?
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Six months have passed since the 2010 Trade Policy Communication, which contained some promising assurances of continued commitment to trade talks, but we are yet to see any signs of actions since. While the EU hardly carries all the blame for the de...
Internet Freedom of Expression
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It only takes a few hours to travel by train between Deauville, the French seaside resort where G8 meets this week, and Brussels. But yesterday they were worlds apart. In Deauville, G8 governments gathered to discuss President Sarkozy’s latest whim...
Euro-Mediterranean Trade Relations: A Rain of Investment on the Horizon?
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Following the storm of demonstrations and political tornados in the North African and Arab countries, one might want to reflect for a moment upon the role of the EU, their main trading partner, in promoting economic growth in a long-term perspective.
The Sendai catastrophe and the Japanese Economy
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Japan was today struck by a 8.8 magnitude earthquake and a devastating tsunami over a vast areas in the northern prefectures of Honshu. While people are still waiting to be saved, or searching for their loved ones, the world economy prepares for poss...
Will the CAP be reformed?
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In the new series "ECIPE asked the expert" we have asked Valentin Zahrnt to give us a stock take on the contentious debate over CAP reform.
EU food supply remains safe despite new food price peak
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In the wake of the 2007/08 food price surge, food security has become the most pervasive and powerful argument of those calling for the protection of EU agriculture. As the FAO world food price index exceeded its 2008 peak in December 2010, the argum...
Europe, the crisis and growth
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Summing up disappointments and EU economic policy in the past year...
Delinking geopolitics and economics: Korea's FTAs and China
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South Korea dominated the world news in the final weeks of 2010. As the dark columns of smoke rose to the sky over Yeonpyeong, they reminded the world of the adjourned peace on the peninsula, impeded by predictable erraticism of North Korea. These ne...
Risks and Rewards of Russia in the WTO
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Will Russia finally join the WTO - and would it help Russia to reform its economic model? I am moonlighting as blogger today at the Financial Times. Below is my piece: Russia’s bid to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO), filed in 1993, has bee...
After Seoul: Institutionalisation of G20?
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Rethinking the expectations of the Seoul G20 Summit - and what could or should happen in France?
Transatlantic Summit: Please Press the Reset Button
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A new agenda for transatlantic economic cooperation.
