Participation in CEPS meetings is a benefit of membership. Non-members may be admitted for €50, paid in cash at registration. A sandwich lunch (€6) will be served before the meeting, from 12.30 onwards.

CEPS was a member of the consortium led by the Gulf Research Council. The project’s main objectives were threefold.
1) It aimed to enhance public and well as professional knowledge and understanding of the European Union, its policies and institutions, among GCC citizens.
2) It strove to strengthen reflection and debate about EU-GCC relations and contribute to the future of policy-making between the two regions.
3) Finally, it sought to make closer links between the EU and the GCC through the dissemination of information on the EU.

As part of a consortium led by GTZ, CEPS prepared a study paper pertaining to “Policies to encourage FDI” which covered the following elements:
• Review trends of FDI into the Kingdom including main characteristics such as sectors of concentration, transfer of know-how, etc.
• How can policies be improved to maximize FDI benefits?
• How can FDI be attracted in new sectors and higher value added activities?

CEPS is a member of consortium led by LSE Enterprise and which also includes University of Maastricht, University of Parma, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and Trinity College Dublin. As part of this contract CEPS has contributed to a study on EU-Korea FTA.

 The project will consider the academic and policy concerns that arise from the increasing importance of the market service sector and the crucial role it appears to play for differential economic performance between industrialised countries. It will do so through examining developments in productivity and its drivers within market services, linkages between services and manufacturing industries, innovation in delivery and types of services and international relationships.

Core issues

Participation in CEPS Lunchtime meetings is a benefit of membership. Non-members may be admitted for €50, paid in cash at registration. A sandwich lunch (€6) will be served before the event, from 12.30 onwards.

Analysis of the possible content, economic impact and feasibility of the EU and Ukraine making a Free Trade Agreement. The team first reviewed available economic evidence on the likely impact of ‘simple’ or ‘deep’ free trade, from which it was apparent that the former would have little impact, whereas the latter could be a major and indispensable component of a strategy to get Ukraine onto a sustainable high growth path.

Changes in consumer attitudes in the EU and other developed countries are having a major impact on the organization of commodities’ trade and global production systems. Demands on corporate practices, including environmental and labor conditions, are affecting global trade and supply systems. Similarly, EU food safety crises in the past decade, as well as the resistance against genetically altered products, have caused a tightening of process and product standards for EU food imports and supply systems, including demands for traceability and tighter SPS standards.

CEPS Task Force Report:
Competition, Fragmentation and Transparency: Providing the Regulatory Framework for Fair, Efficient and Dynamic European Securities Markets, Assessing the ISD Review
Author: Mattias Levin, former CEPS Fellow 

CEPS Task Force Report:
The Future of the WTO and the New Trade Round
Author: Paul Brenton

Date: 24 April 2008

Speaker: Thomas Brewer, Professor, Georgetown University, Associate Senior Fellow, CEPS

After the International Conference on Climate Change of last December in Bali, it is clear that climate change and international trade issues will have to confront with increasingly intersecting agendas, while there is a growing awareness for the need of a multilateral action in order to countervail the proliferation of agreements at more regional levels.

Date: 14 October 2004

Speakers:
Tim Josling, University of Stanford
Stefan Tangermann, Director for Agriculture, OECD

Date: 2 February 2004
 
Speakers: Erika Mann, MEP;
James Elles, MEP;
Hanns Glatz, Delegate of the Board of Management, Daimler-Chrysler;
Thierry Berthoud, Vice-President, Alcan Inc.;
Jim Cloos, Director, Directorate IV Transatlantic Relations, Council of the EU;
Alexander Schaub, Director-General, DG Internal Market, European Commission;