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Product Standards and Developing Country Agricultural Exports: The Case of the European Union
This paper shows that private product standards in EU food and agriculture markets can have significant trade effects. In particular for developing...
Stepping into Asia’s Growth Markets: Dispelling Myths about the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement
Four years after the launch of Global Europe – the European Union’s trade strategy from 2006 – policymakers are now confronted with the first...
Baltic Economic Reforms: A Crisis Review of Baltic Economic Policy
The Baltic economies were severely hit by the global financial crisis. Gross Domestic Product has contracted considerably. Naturally, it asked what...
Vested and Invested Interests: The Role of Investment Protection in EU-Russia Relations
Relations between the European Union and Russia have lately been improving. After years with a turbulent stop-go relation, fraught by Russian...
Beyond Geopolitics – The Case for a Free Trade Accord between Europe and Taiwan
This paper discusses the economics and geopolitics of EU Taiwan commercial relations and weighs the case for a free trade agreement (FTA) between...
The Case Against Europe’s 2020 Agenda
The European Union has set out a new strategy for growth and competitiveness. A successor to the Lisbon agenda, the 2020 strategy aims to usher...