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Four years after the launch of Global Europe - the European Union's trade strategy from 2006 - policymakers are now … Agreement (hereafter EUKOR) is the first of Europe's "new" Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Traditionally a sceptic of bilateral …
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The crisis-struck EU finds it increasingly difficult to engage in trade negotiations with large-sized economies that would have a meaningful impact on growth. Some parts of the European car industry are opposing a FTA with Japan due to defensive interests following the crisis in EU car...
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International reference pricing (IRP) has become a popular policy instrument in Europe as government seeks to curb …
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The European Parliament hearings on the Commission's proposal for a "Regulation establishing rules on the access of third countries' goods and services to the EU internal market in public procurement" offers an opportunity to review two key pillars of the proposal. First, the Directive...
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Given the unsatisfactory deployment of fibre based Next Generation Access (NGAs) networks in the EU, the European Commission proposes in a draft recommendation from December 2012 that wholesale prices for access to the copper networks should be between €8-10. This means that the former...
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Services liberalisation has perhaps suffered from the deadlock of the WTO more than any other area of trade. As the discussions of a potential plurilateral agreement amongst a select group of countries continue, more questions are raised than answered. In a new policy brief by Hosuk...
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Following an FTA with Korea, the EU now takes up the ambitious task of negotiating an FTA with Japan. Inarguably, "big" FTAs are the way forward in the search for growth, but in parallel, the EU should aim to diversify its regional outreach to rebalance trade accounts. In this sense, Taiwan has...
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consequences of any conflagration might bear huge costs for the world economy: all of Europe's €700 billion North Asian trade … Ambassador Dr Nelson is that the nations of Europe should seek to engage with Asia. But ultimately, that will require Europeans … to turn up and do so regularly in Asia, or else Asia may find Europe sooner than it thinks and in ways it might least …
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This paper concerns Europe’s ability to continue its trade strategy into large scale FTAs that are necessary to sustain … EU industrial capacities. The first challenge for Europe is the EU- Japan FTA, whose merits have been met with scepticism … agreements besides an FTA with a declining Europe, the EU-Japan FTA is necessary to maintain European market shares in the world …
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