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European Centre For International Political Economy - an independent policy think tank dedicated to trade and international economic policy issues
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Yep, and guess what else is a big deal: Mutual recognition agreements that prevent #TBTs. Learn more about #MRAs👀bit.ly/3P8G38n
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Yeah, even on a Thursday #TBT stands for technical barriers to #trade. If you thought it meant "technical and boring trade" stuff, you’re wrong! It’s a big deal. And, if it sounds too technical, just remember that #TBTs are “The Big Trade” barriers. twitter.com/Trade_EU/statu…
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💭The question of whether users and senders should contribute network fees is secondary. Instead, we should be asking why our telecom operators won’t invest in their own core business without government interventions that create artificial revenue streams.
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Sender-Pays: Rethinking incentives for infrastructure investments
By Robin Baker and Hosuk Lee-MakiyamaSummaryAs the Sending Party Network Pays debate resurfaces, the question of whether users and senders should contribute network fees is somewhat secondary. Inst
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"Given that trading in the digital economy is less costly, it provides export opportunities for also the poorer parts of the world." Read the blog by
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on the role of developing countries in digital globalization and digital trade policy!
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Digital globalization, 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 is
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5/5 A strong participation in the “new globalisation” is also key for the future EU competitiveness in technology-driven sectors.
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4/5 When using such indicators, the picture is much more nuanced and, in the case of Europe, the role of global trade is as important as ever for hundreds of thousands of companies and millions of jobs supported by global trade flows.
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2/5 This paper builds on the recent arguments put forward by Richard Baldwin and others debunking the myth that we enter a period of de-globalisation.
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♟️"For 🇪🇺 it is critical to know not only how to protect its economy, but also how to carry out reforms to generate economic dynamism and openness to continue being an attractive and relevant region on the board of global economy" Read more by
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Check Mate to the Rules of the Game
This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development. “The king is an attacking piece, use it!” said the Austrian chess playe
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🎯"A more innovative and competitive Europe will increase its capacity to successfully face the great challenges of our time. For this, it is necessary to recover the competitiveness agenda as the central axis of Europe’s economic policy."
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Competitive and innovative: the winning Europe that we need
This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development.The competitiveness of a region is manifested in the commercial success or fail
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While the EU’s coordinated response to the Kremlin’s attack on Ukraine has been effective with sanctions or energy decoupling, these actions should be seen as the start of a new liberal grand strategy: a values-based globalisation. By
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The shared pursuit of a values-based Globalisation
Western liberal globalisation needs a reboot. Over the past years, the West and its institutions have distanced themselves from the outside world, while becoming entangled in their own economic nation
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"Given that trading in the digital economy is less costly, it provides export opportunities for also the poorer parts of the world." Read the blog by
@ErikvanderMarel
on the role of developing countries in digital globalization and digital trade policy!
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Digital globalization, 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 is
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