Policy briefs

• Realizing European Soft Power in External Cooperation and Trade: summary of research findings
  RESPECT Policy Brief | August 2021
• Resuscitating multilateral trade cooperation: A new eBook
  voxEU.org | July 2021
• Promotion of Labour Standards through the European Neighbourhood Policy: Lessons from Moldova and Morocco
  RESPECT Policy Brief | April 2021
• Worth the pain? Firms’ exporting behaviour to countries under sanctions
  voxEU.org | March 2021
• Pulling together or pulling apart: EU trade and development policy
  voxEU.org | October 2020
• Square pegs in round holes? Using trade policy for non-trade objectives
  Collection of 12 RESPECT policy briefs | ECDPM, Great Insights Magazine | July 2020
• EU trade policies: Carrot-and-stick mechanisms in the pursuit of non-trade policy objectives?
  voxEU.org | May 2020
• Enhancing Trade Supply Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Global Policy Opinion | April 2020
• Globalisation for sale: The winners dominate the politics of trade agreements
  voxEU.org | April 2020
• Under the Radar: Regulating EU Official Export Credit Support
  RESPECT policy brief | January 2020
• Trade Policy and Non-Trade Policy Objectives: Perceptions on EU Strategy
  RESPECT policy brief | November 2019
• Perspectives on the soft power of EU trade policy: A new eBook
  voxEU.org | July 2019
• Future of EU’s Trade Policy and Non-trade Objectives
  DIE International Development Blog | May 2019
• EU Trade Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
  RSCAS Policy Paper | February 2019

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Presentations and interviews

• EU Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments: Revisiting the Consultation Process
  B. Hoekman, J. Francois and H. Rojas-Romagosa | Online Roundtable | August 2021
• Realizing Europe‘s Soft Power in External Cooperation and Trade (RESPECT) Overview
  B. Hoekman | Online Roundtable | August 2021
• Rebooting Multilateral Trade Cooperation: Perspectives from China and Europe
  E-Book presentation by B. Hoekman and X. Tu | Friends of Multilateralism Group, Geneva | July 2021
  Re-watch the presentation here!
• EU Trade Agreements and Non-Trade Policy Objectives
  A. Ferrari, M. Fiorini, J. Francois, B. Hoekman, L.M. Lechner, M. Manchin, F. Santi | Online Roundtable |July 2021
• EU Trade Agreements and Non-Trade Policy Objectives
  A. Ferrari, M. Fiorini, J. Francois, B. Hoekman, L.M. Lechner, M. Manchin, F. Santi | ITSG, Rome |June 2021
• Trade in the 21st century : Back to the past?
  Interview with B. Hoekman and E. Zedillo | Blog, Los Angeles Review of Books | January 2021
• Europe and the US-China Trade War
  B. Hoekman | EUI, Florence | February 2020
• Global Spillovers, Multilateral Cooperation and WTO Reform
  B. Hoekman | ICRIER lecture, New Delhi | December 2019
• Do EU export credit agencies comply with international norms?
  K. Dawar | World Trade Forum, Bern | October 2019
• Go ahead and trade: the impact of uncertainty removal in the EU’s GSP scheme
  M. Di Ubaldo | World Trade Forum, Bern | October 2019
• Performance Evaluation and Export Promotion Agencies: Does one size fit all?
  M. Fiorini | ELSNIT conference, Paris | October 2019
• Revitalizing Multilateral Governance at the WTO
  B. Hoekman | 11th Euro-Asia Summer School, Brussels | August 2019
• Trade Wars and Trade Disputes : the Role of Equity and Political Support
  H. Rojas-Romagosa | Galbino Workshop, Anghiari | July 2019
• Gravity estimations with FDI bilateral data : FDI effects of deep preferential trade agreements
  H. Rojas-Romagosa | Galbino Workshop, Anghiari | July 2019
• Regulation, International Cooperation and Trade Governance
  B. Hoekman | Universidad de los Andes, Bogota | May 2019
• Revitalizing Multilateral Governance at the WTO
  B. Hoekman | European Political Strategy Center, Brussels | February 2019
• WTO Reform: Why, What and is it Feasible?
  B. Hoekman | Waseda University, Tokyo | January 2019
• Responding to a Changing Global Economy: Open Plurilateral Agreements and the WTO
  B. Hoekman | WTO Trade Dialogues, Geneva | December 2018
• Looking Forward: Trade and Investment Cooperation in a Changing World Economy
  B. Hoekman | Queens Institute of Trade Policy, Kingston | October 2018
• Digital Trade Technologies, Services and Sustainable Development
  M. Fiorini | WTF, Florence | September 2018
• Performance Evaluation and Export Promotion Agencies: Does one size fit all?
  B. Hoekman & M. Boffa | ERWIT, St Gallen | June 2018 || WTF, Florence | September 2018

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Short videos on RESPECT research themes

Xinquan Tu (UIBE) discusses the relationship between China and EU within the global trade system:

The role of dialogues in the EU-China trade and investment relationships, explained by Jacques Pelkmans (CEPS):

Stefano Inama (UNCTAD) talks about rules of origin and LDCs: