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November 17, 2016
On September 17th, more than 100,000 people took to the streets of several German cities to protest against both the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the draft free trade deal between the EU and the United States, and its Canadian equivalent the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which is slated to become law pending European Parliament ratification.
November 10, 2016
Posting of workers plays an essential role in the internal market of the European Union. Drawing on the fundamental values of the free movement of persons and the free movement of services, it allows workers from one EU member state to work and carry out services in another member state on a temporary basis.
November 1, 2016
Repeat after me: tariffs primarily hurt domestic consumers – not foreign exporters. Tariffs primarily hurt the consumers of the country imposing them on imported goods.
October 27, 2016
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a prospective trade deal between Canada and the EU, came to a screeching halt in the last second before the EU-Canada summit that was proposed for today.
October 5, 2016
When the eurozone debt crisis broke out in late 2009, there was considerable agreement among policymakers that budgetary prudence and structural reform must be at the heart of the crisis response.
September 21, 2016
Economic debates are often presented as a contest between two opposing interest groups. Marxian socialism pitted capital against labour.
September 13, 2016
Infrastructure investment is often presented by policymakers as a silver bullet in times of recession or sluggish growth. Public spending on roads, bridges, airports and railway lines, some economists argue, is desirable for two reasons.
August 23, 2016
The sharing, or collaborative, economy is a rapidly rising business model which enables exchanges of goods and services through online marketplaces.
August 3, 2016
The European Union is all things to all people. To proponents on the right, it is a force for international cooperation, trade promotion and economic growth.
