The EU–China Bilateral Investment Agreement: Between high hopes and real challenges
In 2012, negotiations over an EU–China bilateral investment agreement were launched to fully tap into the potential of bilateral investments.
EU economic affairs
Publications
Commentaries
A horror movie: Euro Jurassic Park
It could be the perfect fall 2015 blockbuster. The new horror movie coming to your neighbourhood soon. Egmont Institute has had an exclusive opportunity to read the script, and it […]
Capital Markets Union: a work in progress quick and high impact measures for the Capital Markets Union
Capital Markets Union has three objectives. The first objective is to improve access to finance for all businesses but especially SMEs; the second is to increase the share of capital […]
Studia Diplomatica
Vol. LXVII, Issue 2 (2014)
Articles When “Good Enough” does not suffice. The impact of crisis on institutional change in European financial sector governance by Aneta B. Spendzharova and Esther Versluis Banking union in Europe […]
Commentaries
TTIP or TTTF? Why the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will most likely become a trade treaty too far
TTIP has become the new trade game for the EU institutions. The players seem however to have neglected an important fact. Since the ratification of the Marrakech Agreements in 1994,
The EU’s fourth railway package: a new stop in a long regulatory journey
Railway policy has been one of the slowest areas of European integration. The first substantial railway directive was only issued in 1991, and the First Railway Package in 2001. There […]
Events
The Financial and Economic Crisis: Overcoming the Shortcomings of the European Framework
(Photo credit: EuroCrisisExplained.co, Flickr)
The European patent system : 50 years of lost opportunities
Round table with Prof. Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie (Solvay school of business-Bruegel) was organised as the EU Commission considers again the introduction of a European patent system and […]
Europe and the crisis
Conference with Mr. Guy VERHOFSTADT, Minister of State. (Photo credit: EuroCrisisExplained.co.uk, Flickr)
The role of the world bank in global development
Conference with Mr. Gino P. Alzetta, World Bank Executive Director for Belgium, Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey. Summary Introductory remarks by Ambas. P. Vaesen, […]