Upcoming events

Seminar Invitation: Launch of the Report of the Transatlantic Taskforce on Trade and Investment (2012-02-15)
In a new report, the Transatlantic Task Force on Trade and Investment presents new and ambitious initiatives for transatlantic leadership in global economic and trade policy.
Venue: The German Marshall Fund, Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi 155, 1040 Brussels
Speakers: Ewa Björling, Jim Kolbe, Peter Balas, Fredrik Erixon, Bruce Stokes, Erika Mann, Patrick Messerlin, Hugo Paemen

ECIPE Seminar: New Ethical responsibilities of Internet Service Providers? (2012-02-29)
The exceptional development of internet in recent years has brought many benefits and new opportunities for an increasing number of people. Yet, it has also raised unprecedented moral and legal questions for both users and web sites – and the internet service providers (ISP) that connects them. Meanwhile, new threats from cyber crime have put the questions around privacy, security and monitoring at the centre stage of a lively debate.
Venue: Bibliotheque Solvay, Parc Leopod, 137 Rue Belliard, B-1040 Brussels
Speakers: Professor Luciano Floridi, Robert Madelin, Professor Mireille Hildebrand, Professor Dan Burk

ECIPE Lunch Seminar: The Rise of Global Value Chains - Implications for Trade and Competition Policy (2012-03-01)
The expansion of global value chains has a major impact on international trade. New trade patterns are not so much about trade in goods as trade in tasks. Trade in intermediate inputs accounts for a considerable part of total trade, and that share has been growing at a remarkable speed in the past decade. What are the sources of this increase – and to what extent are new global value chains global or regional in nature? And what does the rise of global value chains means for competition?
Venue: ECIPE, Rue Belliard 4-6, 1040 Brussels
Speakers: Ari van Assche