On 9 december 2016, the upper house of Japan's parliament approved the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pushed for the TPP's ratification despite US President Trump's decision to pull out the deal, insisting it would send a signal about Japan's continuing support to...

The imbalance between the costs and benefits of DCFTAs is a call to the EU to display greater thoughtfulness and pragmatism if it does not want to lose support for reforms in its neighbourhood. What has to happen so that their potential can be more beneficial? The Policy Brief written by Amat...

[...] Die vorliegende explorative Studie wurde von der Bertelsmann Stiftung initiiert. Unsere Absicht war es, Argumente für eine Berücksichtigung des europäischen Mehrwerts als Entscheidungskriterium zu sammeln, indem wir die Einsparungen und Verluste genau beziffern, die Ausgaben auf...