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Europe's flirtation with digital services taxes (DSTs) appears to be cooling. In July 2025, the European Commission dropped its proposed digital levy from EU budget plans, largely in response to US...

Background The political agreement on the EU-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in July was rushed by political optics, including Trump-era tariffs and pressure to compete...

Publication of a first UK government trade strategy since Brexit was an important step in finally setting out a realistic view of the global economy and the UK's place within that. Positive momentum...

In her State of the Union address, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen touched on nearly every aspect of European life, including the economy. She spoke about housing shortages, energy bills,...

Fortunately, recent times have seen senior European leaders giving more support to new trade agreements than we have been used to in the past decade. The ratification process of the EU-Mercosur...

by Francisco Jure, Research Assistant, ECIPE I have had an Argentine submarine livestream running in the background for days. Thousands of people watched as a pale-pink Dumbo octopus, one among...

The global trade environment is presently marked by deep uncertainty and rapid changes. Headlines range from new tariff threats launched under US President Donald Trump to announcements of opaque...

At one year old, most babies begin to stand on their own feet. Some walk, others wobble, but all start exploring the world under their own strength. Today, the Draghi report turns one. Yet it remains...

Initiatives to dismantle/redesign/reform the WTO (delete whichever is inapplicable according to your preference) continue apace. Towards one end of the spectrum, USTR Jamieson Greer writes (in a...

A few days after the publication of a Joint Statement and the details of the EU-US trade deal, European leaders were taken by surprise by another tariff threat coming across the Atlantic. The EU...