Archived events

Is the Renminbi Undervalued? (2010-06-30)
The debate over China’s currency policy has reached another critical junction: China’s central bank has just dropped its peg to the US dollar to allow for greater currency flexibilities. While it remains to be seen what this move actually will mean for key global exchange rates in future, and for the world economy, it comes after increased pressure on China to revaluate. A bill in the US Congress threatens China with punitive tariffs unless its currency is revalued, and recently the Obama administration reportedly came close to label China a currency manipulator. Europe has also jumped onto this bandwagon, accusing China of boosting its export to Europe with the help of an undervalued currency.
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, Brussels
Speakers: Professor Sylvain Plasschaert

China Taiwan Rapprochement – What This Means for Europe and its Businesses (2010-06-22)
Venue: Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1 Birdcage Walk, Westminster, London, SW1H 9JJ
Speakers: Sheng-Chung Lin, Sir Thomas Harris, Nicholas Winsor, Razeen Sally, Jonathan Fenby, Douglas Fuller, Guy de Jonquieres

A Future For the World Trade Organisation? (2010-05-20)
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is considered by many to be the most important multilateral organisations in the world for economic matters. Its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), spearheaded many rounds of trade negotiations that reduced barriers to trade and boosted globalization and economic growth. Recently, the WTO has given an insurance against crisis-induced beggar-thy-neighbour tariff hikes and a replay of the escalating protectionism the world experienced in the 1930s.
Venue: Hotel Silken Berlaymont, Blvd Charlemagne 11-18, Brussels
Speakers: Peter Sutherland, David O'Sullivan

Rural Development Policy in the EU – Lessons from the Past and Options for the Future (2010-05-19)
The EU’s rural development policy – the second pillar of the CAP – will receive €14 billion in funding in 2010. Whereas the overall CAP budget will likely be cut after 2013, rural development funds stand to increase further. Just about everyone agrees that the CAP has to do more to tackle challenges such as biodiversity loss and climate change, and that this can be best achieved through targeted measures of rural development policy. But how effective is the EU’s rural development policy really?
Venue: Representation of the State of Niedersachsen, Rue Montoyer 61, 1000 Brussels
Speakers: Berkeley Hill, Janet Dwyer, David Blandford, Valentin Zahrnt

Antidumping - Supra-National Law or Sovereignty Rules? (2010-05-19)
While the dispute-settlement mechanism under the WTO has become increasingly a centre court for tensions between East and West, it has also highlighted the question of supra-national rules against sovereignty in international economic law.
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, Brussels
Speakers: Dr Yan Luo, Roderick Abbott

China-EU Strategies on Trade: Past, Present and Future (2010-05-11)
The China-EU dialogue is about to enter a new phase after years of summitry and rhetorics. To follow up on past week's visit by Barroso's delegation to China and the upcoming re-start of the High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue, ECIPE invites you to a lunch seminar with a presentation by Dr Xiaotong Zhang , Deputy Director at the Mission of China to the EU.
Venue: Goethe Institute, Rue Belliard 58
Speakers: Dr Xiaotong Zhang

London Seminar - EU Taiwan Relations - Geopolitical and Economic Challenges (2010-05-06)
Joint Event - LSE-International Trade Policy Unit and ECIPE
Venue: London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK. Graham Wallis Room (AGWR), Old Building, 5th floor
Speakers: Jonathan Fenby, Alexander Neill, Linda Yueh, Razeen Sally, Guy de Jonquières

Why did Anti-Dumping Reform Fail? (2010-04-29)
Few trade issues are as politically charged as anti-dumping. A few years ago, the European Commission made an effort to reform Europe’s use of trade defence instrument, but the efforts led to little more than a deeper division between users of anti-dumping and sectors damaged by the same policy.
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, Brussels
Speakers: Dirk De Bièvre, Jappe Eckhardt

After the Crisis: What Now? The Future of Trade & Multilateralism (2010-03-15)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th floor

Whither US Trade Policy? (2010-03-09)
Venue: Crowne Plaza, Rue de la Loi 107, 1040 Brussels
Speakers: Frank Lavin, former US Under Secretary of Commerce, International Trade

The Future of China’s Trade and Role in Global Production Networks (2010-02-25)
Venue: ECIPE Office, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th Floor, Brussels
Speakers: Ari van Assche, HEC Montreal

EU Trade Relations with North America and Asia: Focus on USA and China (2010-02-10)
Venue: LSE, Clare Market Building, Room: S421

A New Trade Policy for the EU (2010-01-14)
With a new Parliament, new Commission, and a new governing Treaty, the EU could hardly ask for a more interesting start of the New Year. This will also be a time to evaluate what worked and what didn’t during the last five years and to set out the core strategies for the next five years.
Venue: Hotel Crown Plaza, Rue de la Loi 107, Brussels
Speakers: Erik Belfrage

LSE International Trade Policy Unit / ECIPE Seminar (2009-12-09)
Venue: London School of Economics, Connaught House, Room H 216
Speakers: Stephen Woolcock, Razeen Sally, Claire Durkin, Fredrik Erixon, John Cooke, Brian Hindley

EU Trade Policy with the Lisbon Treaty: What will Change? (2009-12-08)
Venue: Euroflat Hotel, Blvd Charlemagne 50, 1000 Brussels
Speakers: Steve Woolcock, Jean-Francois Brakeland, Andreas Maurer

Lunch Seminar with Greg Rushford: US Trade Policy and the Power of Protectionist Lobbying (2009-12-07)
Venue: ECIPE's Office, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7:th floor
Speakers: Greg Rushford

The Way Back: How to Restore the Global Economy? (2009-11-25)
Venue: Conference Venues, Rue Montoyer 47, Brussels
Speakers: Fredrik Erixon, Razeen Sally, Patrick Messerlin, Vivian Davies, Hans Stråberg, Simon Tilford, Ewa Björling, Lucian Cernat, Guy de Jonquières, Roderick Abbott

Free Trade and Climate Change: Avoiding a Conflict (2009-11-19)
Venue: Hotel Euroflat, Blvd Charlemagne 50, Brussels
Speakers: Professor Arvind Panagariya, Fredrik Erixon

A Common Agricultural Policy for European Public Goods: Declaration by a Group of Leading Agricultural Economists (2009-11-18)
Venue: Résidence Palace - International Press Centre, Rue de la Loi 155, Brussels
Speakers: Anastassios Haniotis, Paolo De Castro, Prof. Ewa Rabinowicz, Pekka Pesonen, Valentin Zahrnt, Prof. Ernst-Detlef Schulze

China-EU Trade Relations after the Financial Crisis (2009-11-11)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, Brussels

Trade and Freedom of Expression (2009-11-04)
Venue: Conference venue (State of North Rhine-Westphalia), Rue Montoyer 47, Brussels
Speakers: Peter Chase, David C. Drummond, Fredrik Erixon, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, Mauro Petriccione

The WTO’s Trade Policy Review Mechanism: How to Create Political Will for Liberalization (2009-10-27)
Venue: ECIPE Office, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7:th floor, 1040 Brussels
Speakers: Valentin Zahrnt

Invitation to a Book Forum - The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle (2009-10-20)
Venue: Euroflat Hotel, Boulevard Charlemagne 50, Brussels
Speakers: Harold James, David Rennie, Razeen Sally

The Future of the Doha Round and the World Trade Organisation (2009-10-13)
Venue: Hotel Euroflat, Blvd Charlemagne 50, Brussels
Speakers: Roderick Abbott, Stuart Harbinson, Valentin Zahrnt

Lunch seminar: Trade and Climate Change (2009-10-06)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, Brussels

Brussels Book Launch: Free Trade Under Fire (2009-10-05)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, Brussels 1040
Speakers: Douglas A. Irwin

Non Tariff Barriers in Information Technology Trade: Tackling the Next Frontier (2009-09-24)
Venue: ECIPE Office, Rue Belliard 4-6, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Speakers: Fernando Perreau de Pinninck, Alberto Portugal Perez, Iana Dreyer, Valentin Zahrnt

Whither EU-China Trade and Investment Integration: Crisis, Recovery, Future? (2009-09-21)
Venue: Conference centre, Rue Montoyer 47
Speakers: Roderick Abbott, Fredrik Erixon, Patrick Horgan, Guy de Jonquières, Joerg Wuttke, Yin Zonghua

ECIPE Lunch Seminar: Agricultural policy reform in the US and the EU (2009-09-09)
Venue: ECIPE office, Rue Belliard 4-6, Brussels 1040
Speakers: Professor Robert Thompson

(CHANGE OF VENUE) Book Launch: The Political Economy Of Trade Reform In Emerging Markets: Crisis or Opportunity (2009-06-18)
Venue: RUE MONTOYER 47
Speakers: Peter Draper, Razeen Sally

(CHANGE OF VENUE) Public money for public goods: Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (2009-06-17)
Venue: RUE MONTOYER 47
Speakers: Dr Valentin Zahrnt

STOCKHOLM SEMINAR: The Global Economic Crisis and Emerging Protectionism: The End of the Era of Globalization? (2009-06-11)
Venue: SFN/Timbro, Kungsgatan 60, Floor 2, Stockholm, Sweden
Speakers: Ewa Björling is the Minister of Trade in Sweden, Fredrik Erixon is Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), Patrick Messerlin is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po in Paris and Director of Groupe d’Économie Mondiale (GEM), Johan Norberg is a Columnist and Author, most recently of En Perfekt Storm, a book about the financial crisis., Razeen Sally is Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) and Professor of International Political Economy at the London School of Economics

How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy: Will Economic and Political Reforms Last through the Crisis? (2009-05-28)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, floor 7
Speakers: Dr. Åslund, a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics

Lunch Seminar: Improving food safety and food trade through greater transparency (2009-05-27)
Venue: CIPE's offices, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7:th floor, 1040 Brussels
Speakers: Dr Valentin Zahrnt, research associate at ECIPE

Lunch Seminar: The power of freedom - uniting human rights and development (2009-05-26)
Venue: ECIPE’s offices, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th Floor, 1040 Brussels
Speakers: Guest speaker: Jean-Pierre Chauffour, Lead Economist for International Trade at the World Bank.

ECIPE Roundtable: Deciphering EU anti-dumping policy (2009-05-25)
CHANGE OF VENUE AND TIME! First Euroflat Hotel, Blvd Charlemagne 50. START 12.30
Venue: First Euroflat Hotel, Blvd Charlemagne 50
Speakers: Stefaan Depypere, European Commission DG Trade, P.K.M. Tharakan, Professor Emeritus, University of Antwerp, Economics Department, Lucy Davis, Brian Hindley and Arastou Khatibi, ECIPE, Chair: Fredrik Erixon, Director ECIPE

ECIPE Breakfast Briefing: EU-Russia Relations - What Next? (2009-05-20)
Venue: Hotel Silken Berlaymont, Boulevard Charlemagne 11-19, Brussels
Speakers: Robert Amsterdam, Partner, Amsterdam & Peroff

Lunch Seminar Invitation: Competition, Trade and the Financial Crisis: Beyond the London Summit (2009-04-21)
Venue: ECIPE’s offices, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th Floor, 1040 Brussels
Speakers: Patrick Messerlin, Sciences Po

Seminar - President Obama, Trade Policy, and Emerging Protectionism: Whither world trade? (2009-03-25)
Venue: Sofitel Brussels Europe, 1 Place Jourdan, 1040 Brussel
Speakers: Jagdish Bhagwati, Professor at Columbia University, André Sapir, Senior Fellow at Breugel and Professor at the ULB, Jim Rollo,Professor at Sussex University

Lunch Seminar - China: Saviour or Problem for the Global Economy? (2009-03-24)
Venue: ECIPE Office, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th Floor, 1040 Brussels.
Speakers: Speaker: Guy de Jonquières, Senior Fellow, ECIPE

Brussels Healthcare Roundtable. 2009 Cross-border Healthcare in Europe and Beyond (2009-03-19)
Venue: Hotel Silken Berlaymont, Blvd Charlemagne 11-19, Brussels
Speakers: John Bowis, Rapporteur for patients’ rights directive, European Parliament, Robert Madelin, Director General, DG SANCO, Olivia Wigzell, Deputy Director General, Healthcare Division, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden, Markus Siebert, Chairman Economic Affairs Working Group & Senior Manager Reimbursement & Public Policy, St Jude Medical., Lucy Davis, Trade Policy Analyst, ECIPE, Lior Herman, Research Associate, ECIPE, Luciano Cattani, Vice President Eucomed, Fredrik Erixon, Director, ECIPE, Gernot Pehnelt, Research Associate, ECIPE

Back to Basics: How to Make WTO Agreements on Agriculture More Effective? (2009-03-04)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, Brussels

1970s Déjà Vu: Will the Current Economic Crisis Spawn Protectionism? (2009-01-15)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, Brussels
Speakers: Fredrik Erixon, a Director and co-founder of ECIPE, will present a new ECIPE study on responses to economic crises

Lunch Seminar: What Next for Trade in Information Technology Goods? (2009-01-14)
Venue: ECIPE office, Rue Belliard 4-6 (7th Floor), 1040 Brussels.
Speakers: Fredrik Erixon, Director of ECIPE, Brian Hindley, Senior Fellow of ECIPE

Breakfast Meeting: US Trade Policy and Transatlantic Relations under Obama (2009-01-14)
Venue:
Speakers: Hugo Paemen, Senior Advisor, Hogan & Hartson, Mark McConnell, Partner, Hogan & Hartson

Brussels Launch of The Global Enabling Trade Report 2008 (2008-12-02)
Venue: ECIPE’s offices, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th Floor, 1040 Brussels
Speakers: Margareta Drzeniek Hanouz, World Economic Forum

Taming the Dragon: China's Experience in the WTO Dispute Settlement System (2008-11-25)
Venue: ECIPE’s offices, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th Floor, 1040 Brussels
Speakers: Henry Gao, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong

Can EU-Russian Commercial Relations be Normalized? (2008-11-20)
Venue: Hotel Sofitel, Place Jourdan 1, Brussels
Speakers: Roderick Abbott, Peter Balas, Iana Dreyer, Fredrik Erixon, Brian Hindley, Edward Lucas, Sophie Nappert, Lauge Poulsen

The Doha Round: A Global Insurance Policy - Preventing Protectionism in Turbulent Economic Times (2008-11-17)
Venue: Résidence Palace, 155 Rue de la Loi (Maelbeek Room), Brussels
Speakers: David Laborde, International Food Policy Research Institute, Patrick Messerlin, Groupe d’Economie Mondiale de Science Po and Chairman of ECIPE’s Advisory Board, Joe Guinan, The German Marshall Fund of the U.S.

What are the Prospects for Reforming EU Agricultural Policies? (2008-11-13)
Venue: ECIPE’s offices, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th Floor, 1040 Brussels
Speakers: Roger Waite, Editor of AGRA FACTS and AGRA FOCUS

ECIPE Lunch Seminar: Emerging protectionist threats in the wake of global financial crisis (2008-11-11)
Venue: ECIPE’s offices, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th Floor, 1040 Brussels

ECIPE Lunch Seminar: Post-Mandelson Anti-dumping in the EU (2008-11-05)
Venue: ECIPE’s offices, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th Floor, 1040 Brussels

ECIPE’s Asian Policies Lecture, Asia’s Rise in the 21st Century: Can Asian Institutions Support It? (2008-10-23)
Venue: Hotel Sofitel, Place Jourdan 1, Brussels, Belgium
Speakers: Shri Arun Shourie, Former Minister, Government of India, Simon Long, Asia Editor, The Economist, Razeen Sally, Director, ECIPE

ECIPE Lunch Seminar: Global Supply Chains, Asia, and Europe. Trade Policy Implications of China's and Europe's Integration into Regional and Global Supply Chain Networks (2008-10-14)
Venue: ECIPE’s offices, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th Floor, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Speakers: KC Fung, Professor of Economics at UC Santa Cruz and Visiting Professor at Hong Kong Uiniversity, Razeen Sally, Director ECIPE

ECIPE Lunch Roundtable. Migrant Workers: A Burden or a Boon to EU Economies? (2008-10-08)
Venue: ECIPE’s offices, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th Floor, 1040 Brussels
Speakers: Guest speaker: Philippe Legrain, Writer, Journalist and Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics

US Trade Policy with McCain or Obama: Politics, Policy, People (2008-09-30)
Venue: ECIPE’s offices, Rue Belliard 4-6, 7th Floor, 1040 Brussels
Speakers: Claude Barfield, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Brian Hindley, Senior Fellow at ECIPE

WTO PUBLIC FORUM “Trading Into the Future” A Joint ECIPE and ICC Session (2008-09-24)
Venue: WTO Headquarters, Geneva.

Jan Tumlir Lecture - Does the Trading System Have a Future? (2008-09-17)
Martin Wolf from the Financial Times will discuss the future of the world trading system in ECIPE's first annual Jan Tumlir Lecture.
Venue: Hotel Silken Berlaymont, Boulevard Charlemagne 11-19, Brussels, Belgium
Speakers: Martin Wolf, the Chief Economics Commentator and Associate Editor of Financial Times, Patrick Messerlin, Sciences Po in Paris, and Chairman of ECIPE’s Steering Committee.

Supply Chain Security Initiatives and Trade Facilitation. Do Security Initiatives Deliver on Their Promises or is it Just Too Much and All Too Soon? (2008-06-25)
This conference will present a new comprehensive study on security initiatives by the National Board of Trade in Sweden, bring together world experts to scrutinize evidence concerning costs and benefits of security-chain initiatives, and offer practical and realistic advice on the way forward. The floor will be open to all present to discuss the delicate balance between security and facilitation.
Venue: Hotel Silken, Berlaymont, Blvd Charlemagne 11-19, Brussels
Speakers: John Cooke, Deputy Chairman , SITPRO, Mike Edbury, Director, BERR, UK, Fredrik Erixon, Director, ECIPE, Adrian van den Hoven, Director of International Relations, Business Europe, Joe Kelly, Deputy Director, Capacity Building Directorate, WCO, Johan Krafft, Deputy D-G, National Board of Trade, Sweden, Malcolm McKinnon, CEO, SITPRO, Daniel Mirza, Lecturer, University of Rennes, Research Fellow, CEPII, Johan Pontén, Analyst, National Board of Trade, Sweden, Miroslaw Zielinski, Director, Customs Policy, DG Taxud

Trade in Healthcare: Can Trade Remedy the Cost-Disease in European Health Care Systems? (2008-06-17)
As the first in an upcoming series, this conference launches ECIPE’s new project on trade and healthcare. In Europe, despite spiralling healthcare expenditures by national governments, health productivity continues to fall as beleaguered national health services struggle to cope with demand. Trade agreements say little about healthcare. Some international organizations are hostile to the idea of more trade in this sector, and err on the side of protectionism. Can the current crisis help understand how trade can be an integral part of healthcare provision? Presentations and papers from the conference>
Venue: First Euroflat Hotel, Boulevard Charlemagne 50, Brussels
Speakers: Rolf Adlung, Senior Economist, WTO, Fredrik Erixon, Co-founder and director of ECIPE, Lior Herman, Research Associate at ECIPE, Patrick Messerlin, Professor, GEM, Science Po, Anders Morin, Director, Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, Gernot Pehnelt, Research Associate at ECIPE, Peter Scherer, Head of Health Division, OECD

ECIPE Book Launch: Razeen Sally’s “Trade Policy, New Century” (2008-06-03)
Razeen Sally’s new book, “Trade Policy, New Century. The WTO, FTAs and Asia Rising,” has just been published by the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. The author will present the main insights and messages of his new work. Two discussants, one from academia and one from European policy-making circles will give their views on this new publication, which will be followed by an open debate.
Venue: Hotel Euroflat, Boulevard Charlemagne 50, Brussels, Belgium
Speakers: Roderick Abbott, Erika Mann, Sylvain Plasschaert, Razeen Sally

ECIPE Conference: Will Asia Lead? (2008-05-22)
Asia is again at the centre of the world economy and world affairs. While the post-war period saw the surge of Japan, the 1980s the rise of the so-called Asian Tigers, we are currently witnessing the emergence, or re-emergence of China, and to a certain extent also of India. This conference will discuss the main “macro” trends in Asia, both economic and political.
Venue: Hotel Silken Berlaymont, Boulevard Charlemagne 11-19, Brussels, Belgium
Speakers: Deepak Lal, Professor of International Development Studies at the University of California, Guy de Jonquières, Senior Fellow ECIPE and Chatham House, former Financial Times Asia Commentator, Shada Islam, Senior Programme Executive, European Policy Centre, Razeen Sally, Director, ECIPE

The Multilateral Trade Regime: Which Way Forward? Discussion of the Report of the First Warwick Commission, 2007 (2008-05-07)
The report of the first Warwick Commission was published in late 2007, with the aim of sparking a lively and positive debate about the issues facing the world trade system today. The Warwick Commissions have been charged with carrying out independent analyses of issues of global importance, with the goal of making practical and realistic recommendations about how to move them forward. This discussion taking place in Brussels is part of a process of testing their first report against the realities of global trade and the problems that policymakers face.
Venue: Hotel Silken Berlaymont, Boulevard Charlemagne 11 – 19, Brussels
Speakers: Pierre Defraigne, Warwick Commissioner and Director of the French Institute for International Relations (Ifri), Richard Higgott, Director, The Warwick Commission and Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick, Pierre Sauvé, Warwick Commissioner and Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Switzerland, Dr Heribert Dieter, Warwick Commissioner and professor at the Free University of Berlin, Karl-F Falkenberg, Deputy Director General, DG Trade, Roberto Echandi, Costa Rican Ambassador to Brussels, Razeen Sally, Director of ECIPE, Dr. Manfred Elsig, Senior Research Fellow World Trade Institute, Bern

Book Forum: “India, the Emerging Giant” (2008-04-15)
Professor Arvind Panagariya will present his latest book, “India, the Emerging Giant” at Book Forum organised by ECIPE in association with Sciences Po. Razeen Sally, Director of ECIPE, and professor Mathew Tharakan will comment and discuss this path breaking work, which constitutes a key to understanding the rise of India in the world economy.
Venue: Hotel Euroflat: Boulevard Charlemagne 50, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Speakers: Professor Arvind Panagariya, SIPA, Columbia University, P.K.M. Tharakan, Professor Emeritus of the University of Antwerp, Professor Patrick Messerlin, GEM, Razeen Sally, Director ECIPE

Should Europe really worry about its trade deficit with China? (2008-04-15)
ECIPE invites you to a lunch discussion on EU-China trade and economic relations. In a new paper ECIPE’s Senior Fellow Andreas Freytag has analysed trade data to get a better understanding of what has happened in EU-China trade relations over the last decade. The result is surprising and challenges the established view that the soaring bilateral deficit is explained by currency manipulation.
Venue: Hotel Euroflat: Boulevard Charlemagne 50, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Speakers: Dr. Andreas Freytag

The WTO: Past, Present and Future – Putting the Problems in Perspective (2008-03-27)
With a faltering Doha Round, the future of the multilateral trading system is at stake. Taking a historical perspective can be a useful way of bringing in new perspectives in current discussions on the future of the WTO. Reports will be presented followed by commentaries by key discussants.
Venue: Hotel Silken Berlaymont Boulevard Charlemagne 11 – 19, Brussels
Speakers: Roderick Abbott, Former Deputy Director General of the WTO, Patrick Low, Chief Economist (Director of Economic Research and Statistics) at the World Trade Organization, Peter Kleen, Senior Fellow of ECIPE and Trade Policy Consultant, Lars Anell, Chairman of ICC’s Commission on Trade and Investment Policy; former Chairman of the GATT, Patrick Messerlin, Professor, GEM, Sciences Po, Signe Ratso, Director Responsible for WTO Affairs, DG Trade, European Commission

Kazakhstan and the World Trade Organization: Foreign Economic Diplomacy And CIS Integration into the World Economy (2008-03-26)
This conference will take a comprehensive look at Kazakhstan, its WTO accession and integration into the world economy. Kazakhstan is hailed by the IMF and others as a success story in terms of ‘becoming a globaliser’, but what does this really mean? How might WTO accession facilitate the process and how will Kazakhstan’s choice of strategy affect this politically charged region?
Venue: Hotel Silken Berlaymont, Boulevard Charlemagne 11 – 19, Brussels
Speakers: Ms. Zhanar Aitzhanova, Deputy Minister for Industry and Trade, Kazakhstan, Roderick Abbott, Former Deputy Director General of the WTO, Arastou Khatibi, Research Associate of ECIPE, Department of Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)., Brian Hindley, Senior Fellow, ECIPE, and lead author, of ECIPE’s new study on Kazakhstan’s WTO accession, Dr. Svante Cornell, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Programme, Ms. Signe Ratso, Director Responsible for WTO Affairs, OECD and Food Related Sectors, Fredrik Erixon, Director and co-founder of ECIPE

ECIPE Conference: Trade Facilitation and the WTO: How to Foster Reform and Capacity in Developing Countries? (2008-01-15)
Trade facilitation initiatives hold greater potential benefits in terms of promoting trade, than many traditional market access initiatives. What is less clear is how this should be achieved . At this seminar, noted trade economist Michael Finger will present his new ECIPE study on the role of a WTO agreement in promoting trade facilitation. Finger outlines what measures would be of most benefit to developing and emerging markets and what would be feasible, before looking at the potential obstacles to a successful and meaningful WTO agreement. With contributions from high-level panellists, the debate should be stimulating, in this highly topical area of current trade negotiations.
Venue: Hotel Euroflat, Blvd Charlemagne 50, 1000 Brussels

The Role of Internet for Globalisation (2007-12-05)
Globalisation is often portrayed in the language of economics. Explanations of global economic integration in the last decades – a period when economic integration has been stronger than ever in economic history – often point to the increased use of comparative advantages. The seminar will be based on a new ECIPE studies examining policies that enable a stronger effect of internet services on globalisation.
Venue: Hotel Silken Berlaymont, Blvd Charlemagne 11-19, Brussels
Speakers: Roderick Abbott, Charles E. Crouch, Cornelia Kutterer, Ewa Synowiec, Gernot Pehnelt and Fredrik Erixon

Lunch seminar: Has Globalisation Reduced Inflation in Europe? (2007-12-04)
Two of the most remarkable trends in the last two decades have been the considerable slow down in inflation rates and the increasing globalisation. We know that these two trends have been correlated, but exactly how has globalisation affected inflation? At this seminar Gernot Pehnelt will present his forthcoming paper on globalisation and inflation. Gernot Pehnelt is a Research Associate at ECIPE and an associated scholar at the Friedrich-Schiller-University
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, Brussels
Speakers: Gernot Pehnelt,Research Associate at ECIPE and an associated scholar at the Friedrich-Schiller-University

Lunch seminar: Whither EU-Israeli Economic and Trade Relations? (2007-12-03)
EU and Israel are negotiating a new cooperation agreement, but negotiations have not yielded any substantial result. In what direction are EU-Israeli trade relations moving, fundamentally and politically, and what are the prospects for increased trade integration? Lior Herman, a Research Associate at ECIPE and a visiting lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will present his recent research on EU and Israeli trade policy.
Venue: Rue Belliard 4-6 – 1040 Brussels – 7th Floor
Speakers: Lior Herman

Conference: Stepping into Asia's Growing Markets (2007-11-06)
With Asia’s rise in the world economy commercial ties between Asia and the EU have dramatically increased over the last decades. The EU has launched a new strategy towards Asia focused on gaining better access to Asian markets and promoting its commercial interests. ECIPE’s conference is a first stock-taking of the EU’s policy trends and discussions on how to best move forward in the near future.
Venue: Hotel Silken Berlaymont -Brussels, Belgium
Speakers: Ignacio Garcia-Bercero, Director, EU Commission, DG Trade, Guy de Jonquières, former Asia and World Trade Editor of the Financial Times, Yin Zonghua, People’s Republic of China to the European Union, Professor Patrick Messerlin, Sciences Po, Dr Razeen Sally, Director, ECIPE and Dr Claude Barfield, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute.

WTO Public Forum (2007-10-05)
Venue: WTO headquarters in Geneva — Centre William Rappard
Speakers: Fredrik Erixon, Razeen Sally, Rengang Huang, Patrick Messerlin, Roderick Abbott

EUROPEAN COMPETITIVENESS AND ANTIDUMPING POLICY (2007-10-02)
The European economy has changed profile in the last decades. Globalisation has enabled firms in Europe – and all across the world – to enhance its production structure by breaking up the supply chain. Trade and sourced production are integral parts of the entire chain of production. We are trading in tasks rather than in finished goods.
Venue: Brussels, Hotel Silken Berlaymont , Boulevard Charlemagne 11–19
Speakers: Peter Balas, Ewa Björling, Fredrik Erixon, Brian Hindley, Henrik Isakson, Lena Johansson, Peter Kleen, Johan Krafft, Patrick Messerlin, Cliff Stevenson, Hylke Vandenbussche, Edwin Vermulst

Facing the Challenges of Globalization – Electorate's Responses in France and Sweden (2007-06-28)
Globalization has put pressure on European governments to reform their economies. Yet change has been slow. Unemployment has been at unsustainable levels for decades. Sweden and France have recently changed governments and signalled a new direction for policy.
Venue: ECIPE, Brussels
Speakers: Maria Rankka, Zaki Laïdi

Summer reception (2007-06-20)
The summer has arrived to Brussels – and ECIPE has just celebrated its first six months of existence. It would be a great pleasure for us to have you and other friends – old, new and future friends – at our Summer Reception to celebrate the arrival of summer (and of us...).
Venue: ECIPE, Rue de Luxembourg 3, Ground Floor
Speakers: Alan Beattie

EU-Africa Trade Relations: Why so Difficult? (2007-06-19)
In a new Jan Tumlir Policy Essay Peter Draper, a Senior Fellow of ECIPE and a Research Fellow of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), unfolds the current EPA negotiation process with clarity and subtlety.
Venue: ECIPE, Brussels
Speakers: Peter Draper

ECIPE Book Forum: Good Faith in the Jurisprudence of the WTO (2007-06-13)
In a new book Dr. Marion Panizzon of the World Trade Institute in Bern analyses the case law of WTO dispute settlement practice to get a closer picture of the concepts of "good faith" in WTO jurisprudence.
Venue: ECIPE, Brussels
Speakers: Dr. Marion Panizzon, Roderick Abbott

The G-8 summit in Heiligendamm (2007-05-24)
In early June Germany hosts the annual G-8 summit. This summit meeting is an occasion for Germany to demonstrate the profile of its foreign economic policy. Germany is an inexperienced leader of multilateral economic policy, but has now stepped out of the post-Cold War context of entrenched regionalism.
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Du Luxembourg 3, Floor 1, Brussels
Speakers: Fredrik Erixon

Impacts of Free Trade Agreements – Lessons from Australia (2007-05-22)
The Australian experience of Free Trade Agreements increasingly is relevant for Europe as the EU now has launched new FTA negotiations with several countries in Asia. Australia has been active on the FTA front in the Asian region. It has signed FTAs with Singapore and Thailand, and is currently negotiating with countries such as China and Japan.
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Du Luxembourg 3, Floor 1, Brussels
Speakers: Dr. Lisa Gopp

Prospects for EU-Asia Free Trade Agreements (2007-05-07)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Du Luxembourg 3, Floor 1, Brussels
Speakers: Razeen Sally

European Union policy towards Free Trade Agreements (2007-05-04)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Du Luxembourg 3, Floor 1, Brussels
Speakers: Stephen Woolcock

Assessing Europe's trade-policy strategy (2007-04-25)
Venue: Hotel Silken Berlaymont, Blvd Charlemagne 11-19 Brussels
Speakers: Patrick Messerlin, Gaspar Frontini, Jim Rollo

Immigrants: your country needs them (2007-03-20)
Venue: Hotel Leopold, Rue Du Luxembourg 35, Brussels
Speakers: Philippe Legrain, Stefano Bertozzi, Fredrik Erixon

IIlegal logging – a green attack on the WTO and developing countries? (2007-02-09)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Du Luxembourg 3, Floor 1, Brussels
Speakers: Alan Oxley

Debt Relief and Changing Governance Structures in Developing Countries (2007-02-07)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Du Luxembourg 3, Floor 1, Brussels
Speakers: Dr Andreas Freytag

A German Agenda for its G-8 Presidency (2007-02-06)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Du Luxembourg 3, Floor 1, Brussels
Speakers: Sir Nicholas Bayne, Dr Andreas Freytag, Dr Werner Mussler, Dr Razeen Sally, Mr Lutwin Strauch

EU-Asia Trade Relations (2007-02-01)
Venue: Square du Meeûs 30, Ground Floor, Brussels (Permanent Representation of Sweden to the EU)
Speakers: Mr. Fredrik Erixon, Dr. Mari Pangestu, Dr. Razeen Sally

Are Developing Countries Deterred from Using the WTO Dispute Settlement System? (2007-01-23)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Du Luxembourg 3, Floor 1, Brussels
Speakers: Roderick Abbott, Kerry Allbeury, Mateo Diego-Fernandez, Fredrik Erixon, Signe Ratso

Anti-dumping policy in the European Union (2006-12-11)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Du Luxembourg 3, Floor 1, Brussels
Speakers: Dr. Olivier Cadot, Mr. Fredrik Erixon, Dr. Brian Hindley, Mr. Johan Krafft, Dr. Fritz Harald Wenig

Whither EUs FTA Policy? (2006-11-22)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Du Luxembourg 3, Brussels
Speakers: Mr. Roderick Abbott, Mr. Fredrik Erixon, Dr. David Kernohan, Mr. Joakim Reiter, Dr. Jim Rollo, Dr. Steve Woolcock

The Eurasian Growth Paradox (2006-11-21)
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Du Luxembourg 3, Floor 7, Brussels
Speakers: Dr. Anders Åslund

The ECIPE Launch Conference (2006-11-07)
Venue: Hotel Silken Berlaymont, 11–19 Boulevard Charlemagne, Brussels
Speakers: Razeen Sally, Fredrik Erixon, Johan Norberg, Meghnad Desai, Alejandro Jara, Marcus Wallenberg, Patrick Messerlin, Roderick Abbott, Andreas Freytag, Brian Hindley, Ignacio Garcia-Bercero, Pierre Sauvé, Peter Draper