Back to the Future: Competing to Avoid the Economic Dependencies of the Past

This blog post is based on an article published in El País on the 18th of October 2026. The original article can be found here. Economic dependence becomes a geoeconomic vulnerability when alternatives are...

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    Customs Policy and Trade Defence: When Supply Chain Decisions Become Tax Avoidance

    Dr Anna Jerzewska, founder of Trade & Borders International trade is changing, and the EU, like every other major economy, is grappling with how to respond to shifting dynamics and growing tensions. Customs policy...

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      Postcards from Cambridge, MA: Canada’s European Turn Is About More Than Trade

      As part of my fellowship at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Centre this year, I am starting a series of blogs reflecting on current developments in international politics and economics, viewed from the other side of...

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        Why China Cannot Escape the Economics of Self-Sufficiency

        China’s aim for greater self-reliance is becoming increasingly credible. Beijing’s new five-year plan doubles down on technological self-reliance just as rapid advances in strategic industries, from batteries to AI, are making that goal look...

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          EU-Belarus: No Need to Wait for Political Rapprochement to Start Mutually Beneficial Cooperation

          Yauheni Preiherman, Director, Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations As global geopolitical competition grows and instability proliferates, pragmatic cooperation with neighbours becomes a strategic imperative, not a matter of a normative choice. These circumstances...

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            The Critical Raw Materials Act: the EU’s ecological and digital transitions and the fight for the preservation of the Portuguese Transmontane way of life 

            Ana Cardoso [PhD candidate & Master’s in European Union Law at the School of Law of University of Minho. FCT research scholarship holder – 2025.06747.BD. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54499/2025.06747.BD.] I. The Critical Raw Materials Act (“CRMA”) aims...

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