Since the beginning of 2017, a paradigm change in international trade policy is observed. While the protectionist agendas are on the rise, the EU and Japan signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on 17 July 2018. It is the most ambitious agreement of the EU with any Asian state. The study...

The Brussels Effect, once emblematic of the EU's alleged influence in shaping global regulations, has now become a factor contributing to global regulatory fragmentation. The EU must recalibrate its trajectory towards a liberal and rules-based trading order, prioritizing widespread regulatory...

Dieses Policy Paper untersucht die geopolitische und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung des EU-Mercosur-Abkommens für die Europäische Union (EU) im Rahmen der neuen Wirtschaftssicherheitsstrategie der EU (European Economic Security Strategy). Angesichts geopolitischer Veränderungen und wachsender...

This Policy Brief proposes the establishment of an agreement on conformity assessment between the EU and the US that covers machinery and electrical equipment. The initiative aims to increase the number of European and US conformity assessment bodies authorized to test and certify EU and US...

In this study, MERCOSUR's past exports to the EU under the protectionist environment of the period between 1988 and 1996 are examined and an attempt is made to determine MERCOSUR's exports' growth potential in a liberalised EU market. A sectoral study is considered indispensable since tariff and...

Dreißig Jahre nach seiner Gründung fällt das Fazit zu den Integrationsfortschritten des Mercosur gemischt aus. Während die Handelsliberalisierung innerhalb des Mercosur als Erfolg verbucht werden kann, wurden die Ziele einer Umwandlung zur Zollunion und tiefere Integrationsschritte verfehlt....

This policy brief examines the latest developments in the EU-Mercosur economic relationship and outlines the existing non-economic relationship in order to contextualise the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement and its potential for strengthening common bonds between both regions.

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