Fredrik Erixon talks to Anna Stellinger, the Deputy Director General at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise responsible for International and EU Affairs. They discuss trade and border issues European businesses have come across during this pandemic – what has and...

In this episode, Fredrik Erixon talks to Johan Norberg, a leading advocate of globalization and author of Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future. His latest book, which has only been released in Swedish, is called the Virus and the...

In recent years, policy-makers in Europe have argued in favour of creating a new corporate tax for digital companies. They claim that digital companies (like Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon) do not pay a fair share of taxes under the...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Dalibor Rohac, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of In Defense of Globalism, about the crisis in the centre-right in Europe. In a recent Op-ed, Dalibor wrote about his recent experience...

A recently published report by the Global Trade Alert warns to a sharp rise in barriers to exporting medical supplies needed to counteract the spread of coronavirus. These barriers are putting countless lives at risk. In this episode, Fredrik Erixon...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Dr Claudia Schmucker, the head of the Globalization and the World Economy programme at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), about the WTO, G7, G20 – and Germany’s perception about global economic developments. Germany is...

At a time where digital trade is the fastest growing component of all trade flows, barriers to digital trade are also rising. Fredrik Erixon talks to Erik van der Marel, Senior Economist at ECIPE and Lecturer at the Solvay Brussels...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School, about her new book “The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World“. The Brussels Effect was first defined by...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Ambassador Darci Vetter, Global Lead of Public Affairs and Vice Chair of Agriculture, Food and Trade for Edelman and former Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative. They discuss this year’s Edelman Trust Barometer results....

Fredrik Erixon talks to Roderick Abbott, Senior Adviser at ECIPE and former Deputy Director-General of the WTO and EU ambassador to Geneva. They discuss the crisis in the WTO’s appellate body. What has led to this impasse and what are...