This briefing note was prepared by invitation from the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education. It provides an analysis of how the existent EU internal policies reflect the spirit and the letter of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity. The note suggests further ideas on...

This chapter is a contribution to the Palgrave Handbook of European Media Policy (co-edited by Pauwels, Donders & Loisen). It is the chapter's purpose to examine the proponents of the cultural exception policy, their strategies and demands, and to explore how they came to be reflected in the law...

Much has happened in the past fifty years, and the broadcasting system and in fact the entire media landscape have changed in many significant ways. Yet, the debate on the role of public service media and the involvement of the state in them still perseveres. It has indeed been reinvigorated due...

This is an updated commentary of Article IX of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) on business practices, including a textual analysis of the provision, as well as an examination of the pertinent WTO case law and of other related international and regional rules and practices

The multi-faceted character of the digital challenge combined with the inherent fluidity of digital technologies render the regulatory design that can adequately accommodate them complex and hard to elaborate. In this article, we address one particular aspect of the digital trade discourse and...

This brief contribution looks at the challenges that the World Trade Organization (WTO) faces in times of sweeping digitization and the reality of data-driven economy. It examines paths of possible reform and legal adjustments.The entire essay series is available at: https://www.cigionline.org/wto

This is book review of the excellent and timely volume: Governing Science and Technology under the International Economic Order Regulatory Divergence and Convergence in the Age of Megaregionals, edited by Shin-yi Peng, Han-Wei Liu and Ching-Fu Lin and published in 2018 with Edward Elgar. The...

The article considers the key media policy objective of enhancing cultural diversity and explores one of the possible paths towards it in the digital media space – namely, by addressing the new intermediaries that have an increasingly critical role in contemporary media experiences. It...

The fourth issue of the series jointly published by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development and the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies explores the impact of plurilateralism on intellectual property law. The chapters making up this volume review...

The chapter looks at some of the disruptive changes brought about by digital technologies that matter for trade and trade policy. It then analyzes the responses that trade policy has formulated to address these changes. The chapter focuses in particular on the Comprehensive and Progressive...