The EU Preferential Trade Agreements: Defining Priorities for a Debt-Ridden, Growth-Starving EU
The EU severe debt problem requires urgently the design and implementation of domestic pro-growth reform agendas in Europe. Opening markets to foreign competitors has always been a way to boost and buttress such agendas. A “Sleeping Doha” Round leaves preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as the only channel for opening markets to foreign competition. In this context, this paper examines two questions: do the PTAs currently negotiated by the EU fit well the EU quest for growth? If not, what would be the appropriate PTAs?
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2012-01-30
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Authors: | Messerlin, Patrick |
Institutions: | Department of Economics, Sciences économiques |
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