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Epic Fail: Trump’s trade policy in a nutshell

  “Trump’s Trade Policy Has Produced Damaging Tariffs but Little Else” By Daniel Griswold, courtesy of the Mercatus Center   Americans are about to enter the third full year of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff regime, which aims to promote US manufacturing, protect key industries, and prompt other nations to reduce their trade barriers. So, […]

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There are actually two possible “no deals”

  “What would a ‘No Deal’ after the transition period look like?” By Dominic Walsh, courtesy of Open Europe   How ‘No Deal’ could happen after the transition period   The revised Withdrawal Agreement agreed by Boris Johnson’s Government replaced the UK-wide ‘backstop’ with a new Protocol that applies only to Northern Ireland. Unlike the previous deal, […]

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New Protectionism: Still Protectionism and Bad Economics

        By Veronique de Rugy, courtesy of the Mercatus Center   For several years now, news headlines have reflected anxieties about the effects of globalization and freeing trade: Will jobs evaporate? Does China have an “unfair” advantage? Is the middle class disappearing? These fears need to be addressed, because they have resulted […]

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How should small countries navigate a “tripolar” world?

  “The political dimension of a Swiss-US trade agreement” By Jennifer Anthamatten and Patrick Dümmler, courtesy of Avenir Suisse   In the last two decades, global trade flows have shifted markedly, and the current geopolitical structure is in transition. The time in which there was an undisputed hegemon seems to be ending. Instead, a future […]

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Winds of change for the EU and Morocco

  By James Moran, CEPS   After a period in the doldrums, it has been a good year so far for EU-Morocco relations. In February, the European Parliament approved amendments to the EU-Morocco association and fisheries agreements, addressing the dispute about the inclusion of Western Sahara in the scope of those accords.   This helped […]

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TES Weekly Update: Russian Bear Gets Cozy In The Tropics

Meet your fuzzy new best friend everyone   Vladimir Putin may have promised that the “Russian bear” will stick to the cold climes of Siberia, but perhaps he wasn’t being entirely truthful (shocking, shocking).  It seems the famous ursine avatar is sniffing around the Middle East and Africa — and Russia’s moves in these regions […]