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So who is eating Argentina’s lunch now?
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the President of Argentina, was on fire that day, almost exactly a year ago, when she introduced the bill that would enable the government to grab the controlling stake in YPF, the energy firm, held by the Spani...
Freeing up transatlantic trade
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Last week European leaders endorsed the launch of negotiations between the EU and the US over a bilateral trade agreement. Leaders said that they reiterated ”support for a comprehensive trade agreement which should pay particular attention to w...
Rebalancing the Eurozone: The Role of Northern Fiscal Policy
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The Eurozone crisis muddles forth. Growth will be stagnant or even decline in 2012. Employment prospects remain bleak as unemployment rose by 2.6 million in the last year alone. In September, the ECB announced its Outright Monetary Transactions progr...
Cameron's Speech
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David Cameron’s speech on Europe is no game changer for the European Union. His new strategy on Europe will not be a source of reforms in the EU. And therefore, it cannot be a viable strategy for Cameron to bridge the divide in his own party, o...
Open trade and its discontents
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The following article was also published as an op-ed in the December 6th issue of the European Voice under the title ’Open trade is a two-way street’The decision by the EU trade ministers to open free trade negotiations with Japan arrived...
Rethinking Taiwan: How the EU should follow China into a trade agreement
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--> A year ago, deepening trade relations between Taiwan and the EU was seen as a far-fetched goal for the EU. It was formally never considered for a FTA with Europe, despite being one of the wealthiest countries in Asia; Taiwan’s grow...
A new approach for EU-China trade policy
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What will happen to trade relations between China and the European Union (EU) in the next few years?China’s rise to preeminence in world trade has been a source of economic growth for both China and Europe in the past decade. Today, the China-E...
Solar Panels and Retaliatory Duties: What’s the Use?
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Solar power, and specifically the production of solar panels, has become a hot topic in trade policy circles. China recently launched a WTO case against the European Union, and the United States has decided to employ anti-dumping and countervailing d...
The post-ACTA Debate: An Ethical Analysis of its Failure
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Why would ECIPE decide to join in on the controversial ACTA debate four months after the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted against it? Introducing the ECIPE seminar on Oct 17th, ECIPE director Hosuk Lee-Makiyama explains: “the debate run...
Going from absence to leadership — Expectations on the EU in the Asia-Pacific region
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Europe should increase its presence in the Asia-Pacific and become more actively engaged. This was the main the message from some of Europe’s most important strategic partners in the Asia-Pacific region on the occasion of the ECIPE conference &...
The new Eurozone deal – not a game changer
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After they have exhausted all the alternatives, Eurozone leaders have finally done the right thing. Finally other countries stood up against German economic oppression, and the German austerity queen had no alternative than to climb down from her thr...
Brian Hindley In Memoriam - by Meir Perez Pugatch
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I MET Brian for the first time as a young PhD student seeking guidance and supervision. During our very first meeting, Brian -‐ in his very simple, friendly and non-‐nonsense manner -‐ made me aware that I know nothin...
Brian Hindley In Memoriam - by Ray Richardson
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I FIRST MET Brian at the LSE in 1968 when, like so many others, including Brian himself, I returned from doing graduate work in the USA. Brian had attended the University of Chicago, and it showed straightaway. Chicago must have shaped Brian profound...
Brian Hindley In Memoriam - by Seev Hirsch
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I FIRST MET Brian in the mid 'sixties, when we both did part time work for the Trade Policy Research Centre, directed at that time by Hugh Corbett, an energetic Australian Journalist and, like Brian, avid free trader, who struggled hard to keep the C...
Brian Hindley In Memoriam - by Patrick A. Messerlin
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I MET BRIAN Hindley in1985 at one of my very first conferences on trade policy. After my presentation, Brian came to tell me, with his usual kindness and warmth, that we should work together on European trade policy matters. Such a behavior captures...
Brian Hindley In Memoriam - by Razeen Sally
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I KNEW BRIAN for almost twenty years – from the time I started teaching the Political Economy of International Trade course at the LSE. But it was a superficial acquaintance for the first decade. Then it grew into a friendship, especially when...
Brian Hindley In Memoriam - by Claude Barfield
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THOUGH WE DID not see each other very often in recent years, I counted Brian Hindley as a good friend as well as professional colleague and collaborator. How we first met is lost in the fog of memory—probably through Jagdish Bhagwati or from re...
Brian Hindley In Memoriam - by Philip Booth and John Blundell
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BRIAN HINDLEY WAS the co-‐author of a brilliant study for the IEA called "Better off Out?". The study evaluated, dispassionately, the costs and benefits of EU membership to Britain and concluded that the net benefits were close to zero. It...
Brian Hindley In Memoriam - by Hugh Corbet
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BRIAN HINDLEY, OF the London School of Economics, was appointed Counselor for Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre in 1976 until it closed in 1989. Nearly a decade earlier he was one of the half dozen economists Harry G. Johnson identified as...
Something fishy going on... – how to rationalise European and global fisheries policies
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World fish stocks are in peril. But despite massive overfishing, governments continue to support the unsustainable exploitation of maritime resources.Incidentally, we are all on the same boat of unsustainable global fisheries policies, or rather, on...
