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CEPS has been contracted to provide independent external advice to the European Parliament on issues related to the internal market. CEPS has already provided a briefing note on ‘Market Surveillance in relation to Type Approval requirements’.

 



CEPS was a member of the consortium led by the Gulf Research Council. The project’s main objectives were threefold.
1) It aimed to enhance public and well as professional knowledge and understanding of the European Union, its policies and institutions, among GCC citizens.
2) It strove to strengthen reflection and debate about EU-GCC relations and contribute to the future of policy-making between the two regions.
3) Finally, it sought to make closer links between the EU and the GCC through the dissemination of information on the EU.

 



CEPS’ contribution to this study led by CASE was to carry out a Business perception survey and to provide an analysis of different business sectors in selected Euromed countries. 



As part of a consortium led by GTZ, CEPS prepared a study paper pertaining to “Policies to encourage FDI” which covered the following elements:
• Review trends of FDI into the Kingdom including main characteristics such as sectors of concentration, transfer of know-how, etc.
• How can policies be improved to maximize FDI benefits?
• How can FDI be attracted in new sectors and higher value added activities?

 



This research examined the limits of the status quo and carried out an empirical analysis of the cost-benefits of a EU-Japan enhanced economic agreement for the EU27 and looked at the impact of the EU-Korea FTA on EU-Japan trade relations.

 



CEPS is a member of consortium led by LSE Enterprise and which also includes University of Maastricht, University of Parma, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and Trinity College Dublin. As part of this contract CEPS has contributed to a study on EU-Korea FTA.

 



A short issues paper that provided an overview of the main features of EU-Indonesia trade and investment relations and the key factors that influence EU trade and investment with Indonesia

 



 The project will consider the academic and policy concerns that arise from the increasing importance of the market service sector and the crucial role it appears to play for differential economic performance between industrialised countries. It will do so through examining developments in productivity and its drivers within market services, linkages between services and manufacturing industries, innovation in delivery and types of services and international relationships.

25 July 2011

For the last two decades, the 11 countries of the Southern Mediterranean (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey) have recorded the highest growth rates in inbound world tourism, with domestic tourism increasing rapidly too. The economic performance of tourism in the 'MED 11'  has been astonishing, given the security risks, natural disasters, oil prices rises and economic uncertainties in the region and the recent financial crisis.

27 May 2011

While there is a broad empirical literature on the impact of trade on environment, the literature on the impact of environmental regulations on trade flows is relatively scarce, very heterogeneous and presents mixed results. The innovative feature of this paper is its attempt to estimate, in a gravity setting, the overall impact on 14 EU countries’ bilateral exports of three major Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs).



Participation in CEPS meetings is a benefit of membership. Non-members may be admitted for €50, paid in cash at registration. A sandwich lunch (€6) will be offered before the meeting, from 12.30 onwards.

16 November 2010

Relations between China and the West have been difficult for some time.
Recently, however, one issue in particular has made the headlines: rare earths. Vital for the production of low-carbon products such as hybrid cars and wind turbines, consumer goods and sensitive military hardware like cruise missiles and smart bombs, rare earths are indispensable for high-tech industries and emerging technologies.

26 July 2010

This working paper addresses a number of policy-relevant issues regarding the EU’s bilateral investment treaties (BITS), namely, whether the EU’s BITs have a significantly positive impact on outflows; and which member states and which BIT partners have had a significant experience after the implementation of the BIT. The author finds that both OECD BITs and EU BITs have a statistically significant and positive impact on FDI outflows.

05 March 2010

The Southeast Europe (SEE) region comprises a group of countries with a common objective, and prospect, to become members of the European Union (EU). To achieve the goal of EU membership, these countries have pursued closer integration with the EU as well as with each other. In December 2006, the SEE countries, and Moldova, signed the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), a comprehensive free trade agreement that aims to fully liberalize trade in the region as well as to achieve greater cooperation in a number of trade-related areas.



Participation in CEPS Lunchtime meetings is a benefit of membership. Non-members may be admitted for €50, paid in cash at registration. A sandwich lunch (€6) will be served before the event, from 12.30 onwards.

01 August 2002

Die Auswirkungen der Liberalisierung im Rahmen des ATC (Agreement on Textiles and Clothing) auf die deutsche Textilwirtschaft und die von ihr beschäftigten Arbeitnehmer/innen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Beitritts Chinas zur WTO Studie im Auftrag von: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie, Gesamtverband der Textilindustrie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Industrievereinigung Chemiefaser e.V., IG Metall



Analysis of the possible content, economic impact and feasibility of the EU and Ukraine making a Free Trade Agreement. The team first reviewed available economic evidence on the likely impact of ‘simple’ or ‘deep’ free trade, from which it was apparent that the former would have little impact, whereas the latter could be a major and indispensable component of a strategy to get Ukraine onto a sustainable high growth path.



This study examines the following elements:

  • Analysis of trade and production structures in South Korea and the EU: Implications for non-tariff, services and regulatory parts of an FTA
  • Projected foreign direct investment and economic growth in South Korea
  • Trade Policies in South Korea regarding non-tariff, services and regulatory issues: nature of the main obstacles to trade and the implications for the scope and content of a FTA
25 November 2008

This study is a qualitative analysis of a potential free trade agreement between the EU and South Korea conducted from January to April 2007, under a contract from the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission. The study aims to provide a basis for the negotiations that started in May 2007 between the EU and South Korea. As such, it is an in-depth examination of the extent to which EU exporters face non-tariff barriers to trade with Korea.

30 October 2008

At the EU-Canada Summit on the 17th October in Montreal, it was announced that both parties got the green light to draw up the negotiating mandates for an “enhanced economic partnership” agreement. CEPS Research Fellow Selen Sarisoy Guerin argues that this ambitious new generation bilateral agreement will be one of a kind.

14 July 2008

This paper argues that there are significant potential economic gains to be obtained from an EU-Canada Free Trade Agreement. The evolution of trade between the US and Canada following the signing of CUSFTA in 1989 offers a good illustration of how trade might increase after an EU-Canada FTA, as the patterns and levels of protection between the EU and Canada today are very similar to the protection that existed between the US and Canada in 1989.

03 July 2008

CEPS Research Fellow Jorge Nùñez Ferrer expresses concern in this commentary over the implications of the recent price hikes in food commodities worldwide for the decisions that will be taken in the course of the ‘health check’ currently underway of the CAP and for the potential longer-term consequences for the EU budget review.

29 April 2008

Last year the European Union began negotiating free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, India and ASEAN. These negotiations are important because they are among the EU’s first round of new generation FTAs as called for in the Global Europe: Competing in the World communiqué. They are also important because if and when the agreements are signed, they will be the EU’s first bilateral FTAs in the region.

07 June 2007

Full title: Global Supply Chains, Standards and the Poor: How the Globalization of Food Systems and Standards Affects Rural Development and Poverty

28 December 2006

This book examines the repercussions of the EU’s agricultural policies and its regional, bilateral and multilateral trade agreements. It presents the analyses and findings of the European Network of Agricultural and Rural Policy Research Institutes (ENARPRI), a unique collaboration of experts from across the EU. Their contributions to this volume focus on trade flows and economic development, exploring how the agreements affect the EU and the other countries and regions involved.

25 September 2006

The indefinite prorogation of the WTO’s Doha trade talks in July suggests that the global appetite for multilateralism may now be seriously weakened. In this new Policy Brief, CEPS Senior Research Fellow David Kernohan and T. Huw Edwards of Loughborough University look at how a failed or significantly delayed Doha round (say till 2009 at the earliest) could affect the scope and structure of any eventual WTO deal. In particular, if a rise in regionalism in the interim is inevitable, they ask whether the EU should reassess its regional trade policy objectives?