Industry strengthens its fight against counterfeiting
Counterfeiting is bad news for everyone, bar fraudsters. Consumers are exposed to inferior or dangerous products, brands lose their value and online platforms like Allegro risk their reputation as...
View Article#Media4EU Tour d’Europe: perspectives for Europe’s media sector
‘ Don’t ask what the media can do for EU, but think what Europe and media could do together’ “The EU never handled the media like a normal economic sector. Rather: regulating it, discussing press...
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#Media4EU Tour d’Europe: Why cross-border cooperation makes for a fitter...
. This blog post belongs to the #Media4EU Tour d’Europe series. Read the project outline, timetable and deliverables here, and the list of its steering committee here. Fondation EurActiv and the...
View ArticleSmall European businesses vs. new EU VAT bureaucracy
Guest post by Christian Borggreen, Vice President of CCIA Europe An often overlooked European success story is how hundred of thousands of European small companies have thrived thanks to the Internet....
View ArticlePoland on the Road to Electromobility
Guest post by Michal Kurtyka, PHD Electromobility is one of the several strategic directions for Poland’s economic development in the near term. On March 16, 2017, the Polish government adopted the...
View ArticlePolicy Analyst for Consumer Choicer Center
Guest post by Bill Wirtz, Policy Analyst for the Consumer Choice Center A ‘digital tax’ is just another burden on consumers In a recent move by four EU member states, the European Union has brought...
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Don’t throw the Chaebol baby out with the corrupt bath water
Guest post by Gabriel A. Giménez Roche, assistant professor of economics at NEOMA Business School, and associate researcher at the Institut Économique Molinari At a time when the nuclear menace of...
View ArticleEC funds are not the way to spur venture capital and innovation in the EU
Venture capital funds relatively risky businesses with significant upside. It’s expensive capital. When successful however it has an outsized economic impact. Think PayPal, Square, Google, Facebook...
View ArticleThe Western Sahara Case : Montesquieu is the one who is murdered!
Guest post by Jean-Jacques Neuer, Lawyer-Solicitor On 27 February, the European Court of Justice – ECJ – is about to pronounce a judgement invalidating all agreements made by the European Union with...
View ArticleMr Magoo Goes To Washington
Guest blog post by Stefan Rating, an expert in competition and regulatory Law at Rating Legis SLP and a former European Commission special assistant to the Director General of DG Competition. Today,...
View ArticleContraband, Counterfeit and People – A Brexit Smuggler’s Charter for Customs
Guest post by Cambre CEO Tom Parker. With the EU to set out its latest guidelines on the Brexit negotiations later today, much attention will be given to the negative reception to Theresa May’s pick...
View ArticleCountering a corruption counter-revolution in Romania
Guest blog post by Nicolas Tenzer. Tenzer is chairman of the Paris-based Centre for Study and Research for Political Decision (CERAP). Institutions of democratic transparency and judicial independence...
View ArticleRule of law conditionalities – why not focus on misuse and corruption?
Guest post by MEP Benedek Jávor. Cohesion policy is an important tool of solidarity within the European Union. Since the 2004 accession wave this European flow of sources contributed on an altering...
View ArticleBrexit, Open Banking and the FinTech Revolution
Guest post by Mark Cummins. Mark Cummins is Professor of Finance at the Dublin City University Business School and Head of the Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship Academic Group. He holds a PhD...
View ArticleEU should help payments markets work better
March, 2018 the European Commission proposed requiring better disclosure of credit-card foreign-exchange fees and that charges on intra-EU cross-border euro and domestic non-euro payments be the same....
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