Multilateralism

International carbon trading: a strategic lever to boost global decarbonisation

International carbon credits can support the EU’s 2040 target if buyers’ club rules and leverage ensure real mitigation gains abroad

Georg Zachmann and Annabelle Weisser

A plan for a World Trade Organization sectoral agreement on semiconductors

Trade weaponisation is straining WTO rules, but a semiconductor pact could show how to manage security risks

Petros C. Mavroidis and Mario R. Palacios

Less focus on poverty reduction? An evaluation of the EU 2028-2034 development aid plan

European Union development aid is emphasising poverty reduction less and directing attention to other geopolitical priorities

Costanza Greppi Maturana and Niclas Poitiers

A plan to revitalise the World Trade Organization

Saving the WTO will require EU-led alliances, better subsidy disciplines and new plurilateral routes, even if some initiatives sit outside the WTO

Ignacio García Bercero

Ragnar Nurkse and the Making of the Bretton Woods Paradigm

An intellectual biography and analysis of how a little-known Estonian economist developed the authoritative account of the Bretton Woods paradigm

Ivo Maes and Ilaria Pasotti

EU aid for domestic revenue mobilisation after the Sevilla Commitment

The 2025 Sevilla Commitment renews the push for domestic revenue mobilisation, with the EU needing stable, targeted support for low-income partners

Roel Dom, Costanza Greppi Maturana and Pascal Saint-Amans

Without freedom of navigation there is no globalization

Alicia García-Herrero

EU policy on the World Trade Organization in the wake of the March Ministerial

Despite stalled WTO talks, the EU should persevere with like-minded economies on new agreements and common global trade rules

Ignacio García Bercero

Kaja Kallas: The EU’s Tough Talker

Rebecca Christie

Defining the new strategic direction for European Union trade policy

A turbulent January exposed EU trade strengths and fissures, demanding rapid anti-coercion action and smarter leverage of trade deals

Ignacio García Bercero

How the global minimum tax amendments could reshape Europe’s tax incentives

This analysis offers estimates for EU countries of the possible impact of the ‘safe harbour’ update to the global minimum tax on corporate profits

Roel Dom

A first step in coalition building to reform the global trading system

Two of the world’s major trading blocs have signalled their willingness to work to repair a system undermined by the US and China

Ignacio García Bercero