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Political assessment of possible future positive (cooperation) or negative (restrictive) attitudes of main trade partners of the EU
Testimony to the European Parliament on the geopolitical aspects of trade.
- Publishing date
- 16 November 2020
- Authors
- Niclas Poitiers Dennis Görlich

On November 9th 2020, Bruegel research fellow Niclas Poitiers presented his testimony and participated in a discussion with MEPs by invitation of the Committee for International Trade (INTA) of the European Parliament. At the webinar entitled 'Data flows, artificial intelligence and international trade: impacts and prospects for the value chains of the future', he presented his input drafted together with Dennis Görlich on the geopolitical aspects of digital trade.
About the authors
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Niclas Poitiers
Niclas Poitiers, a German citizen, joined Bruegel as a research fellow in September 2019.
Niclas' research interests include international trade, international macroeconomics and the digital economy. He is working on topics on e-commerce in trade as well as European trade policy in global trade wars. Furthermore he is interested in topics on income inequality and welfare state policies.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat de Barcelona, a M.Sc. in economics from the Universität Bonn, and a B.Sc. from Universität Mannheim. During his Ph.D. he was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University.
Niclas is fluent in English, Spanish, and German.
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Dennis Görlich
- Language
- English
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