. Thus, the question is whether Europe should try to sustain one common global umbrella of standards - or see the world …

gain greater sales at the expense of producers from Europe and other advanced manufacturing economies. The medical …, orthopaedics and pacemakers. In the last decades, Europe's exports of medical devices to China have grown robustly. On the back of … vibrant innovation, firms from Europe and elsewhere have not just followed the growth of Chinese demand for medical devices …

competition from the emerging markets, not least China and India. In trade policy, Europe feels the need for a more assertive and …

UK and the EU, and the UK and the US. These are not in any of their wider interests. Talk of trade wars in Europe cannot …

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Europe has benefitted strongly from being an open economy that can access goods and … services from other parts of the world. Paradoxically, some politicians in Europe think that dependence on foreign supplies … reduced the resilience of our economy - and argue that Europe now should wean itself off its dependence on other economies. In …