Insights
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Europe Goes to Love Island
This blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 25th of January 2026. The original article can be found here. At the final bonfire, the contestants on La isla de las tentaciones...
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The EU–Mercosur Agreement Is Not Old. The Debate About It Is.
Much of the opposition to the EU–Mercosur agreement relies on claims that do not stand up to scrutiny. The agreement is often portrayed as outdated, a threat to agriculture, and environmentally...
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Adapting Under Pressure: The Global South’s Quantum Journey
by Francisco Jure, Research Assistant, ECIPE I have had an Argentine submarine livestream running in the background for days. Thousands of people watched as a pale-pink Dumbo octopus, one among...
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Beyond Fear: The EU-Mercosur Agreement and European Agriculture
This blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 19th of January 2025 with María C. Latorre and Isabel Pérez del Puerto. The original article can be found here. On the 6th of...
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The Case for Expanding the EU’s Transatlantic Relations
In 1917, in the aftermath of the sinking of U.S. merchant ships, President Woodrow Wilson told Congress in his request for a declaration of war on Germany that “the world must be safe for democracy...
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Mexico: the Missing Piece in the EU’s Transatlantic Outlook
Mexico elected a new President in June and, on October 1st,, the country's first female president, Dr Claudia Sheinbaum, will take office. There are plenty of challenges in her inbox: Mexico's...
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Grumbling in the Fields: EU Agriculture and Trade
*The views expressed herein are individual to the author and do not represent any official position European farmers have taken their tractors to the streets. Their list of complaints can be...
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The EU and Mercosur Escape Room: How to Unlock the Association Agreement
The Association Agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – remains in limbo. The text, trapped in Brussel’s bureaucratic...
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Digital Globalisation, Digital Trade Policy, and the Role of Developing Countries
Digital trade has grown very fast in recent years, not least because of Covid-19 and its push to do online business. The pandemic, according to one news story, “has accelerated digitalization and...
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The Role of Intellectual Property in Achieving the Health Sustainable Development Goal
By Prof. Dr. David Taylor, University College London Introduction In the absence of a vaccine much of the positive progress on combating HIV/AIDS recorded in the last 20 years has been due to the...