News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Saturday, April 26, 2025
This week it’s Brussels’ Bruegel that isn’t pulling any punches on critical EU policies on Russian gas and net-zero technologies. The Institute for European Environmental Policy is proposing ways to implement the new EU sustainability due diligence regulations in countries such as Vietnam.
This week’s think tank publication highlights include another set of new pieces by the European Council on Foreign Relations and a think piece from the Peterson Economics for International Trade.
Think tanks in Europe this week have been busy scrutinising the EU’s recently very active subsidy-industrial policy nexus.
After a May holiday hiatus, think tanks are coming back on stream with new reports. Here a selection of two notable reports on US export controls and the EU’s green trade agenda.
The European Council on Foreign Relations has been very active in recent days.
After a few weeks of being fairly quiet, think tanks doing things on trade policy have been churning out reports again – long or short – on some big-ticket items: WTO reform, EU data flows and EU Turkey relations.
Here are a few highlights of recent think tank trade policy activity.
As Europe’s economic security is increasingly threatened by unfair competition, stressed supply chains and the adverse effects of the war in Ukraine, it’s crucial that it balances its goals of economic security and openness to trade and investment by prioritising multilateral and plurilateral solutions. These are the main takeaways presented …
A selection of interesting recent think tank pieces. CSIS: US should let the Germany work out its approach to China as its domestic debate shifts Lily McElwee Fellow, Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that explains how the debate in Germany surrounding China …
Think tanks are busy churning out content and context on EU and US green tech industrial policies.
