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H2020Doctoral network2017–2021

EUTIP · EU TRADE AND INVESTMENT POLICY

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-04-01 → 2021-03-31
EU contribution
€3,910,778
Participants
35
Scheme
MSCA-ITN-ETN

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Results in brief

EU TRADE AND INVESTMENT POLICY

International trade and investment are of considerable economic and political importance for Europe. The EU is negotiating trade agreements globally, involving the abolition of tariffs, the reduction of non-tariff barriers to trade, and the introduction of dispute settlement mechanisms. However, the example of the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the USA has shown the challenges of EU trade policy. The objective of the EU Trade and Investment Policy ITN (EUTIP) is to foster interdisciplinary research into the evolving international trade policy of the EU with a view to create a significantly increased European knowledge base and research capacity on EU law and policy of the regulation of international trade through free trade agreements (FTAs) with third countries, thus helping Europe to safeguard the benefits of international trade (wealth, jobs, etc.) while addressing the challenges of its regulation (competence, democracy, accountability, environmental- and labour, standards, etc.). It is argued that the EU trade and investment policy pursued through FTAs is evolving into an entirely new legal, economic, and political sub-discipline closely related to and originating in EU and international trade law, economics, and politics. This new field of law, economics, and politics is wide-ranging, including aspects already addressed in existing FTAs and fields of trade and competition law currently regulated in the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU), the relevant decision-making mechanisms, the relationship between the relevant legal systems, and dispute settlement. Moreover, the ITN investigated Transatlantic agreements as precedents and possible templates for third generation trade agreements of the EU with other parts of the world. The network is an interdisciplinary, intersectoral collaboration pooling world-leading researchers and practitioners from all relevant disciplines of law - EU constitutional, internal market, and external relations law, international trade law, and international law, as well as political science, international relations, business studies, and economics. EUTIP fully integrates academic and non-academic Beneficiaries and Partner Organisations, including think tanks, lobbyists, regulatory bodies, law firms, third country academic institutions, and an international organisation. Furthermore, the network supports and enhances the process of converting research results into policy papers through partnership with high-impact policy research units at the forefront of European policy research and policy making. The work consisted of 3 substantive work packages on (1) governance, (2) regulation, and (3) multilateralism and regionalism. 12 PhD research projects are supervised by academics of the 11 Beneficiaries with an interdisciplinary training programme covering the legal, political, and economic foundations of EU trade and investment policy and an interdisciplinary and intersectoral programme of secondments involving 18 Partner Organisations. 2 PhD research projects are already completed, most projects will be completed before the end of 2021.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

International trade and investment are of considerable economic and political importance for Europe. The EU is negotiating trade agreements globally, involving the abolition of tariffs, the reduction of non-tariff barriers to trade, and the introduction of dispute settlement mechanisms. However, the example of the controversial TTIP has shown the challenges of EU trade policy. The objective of the EU Trade and Investment Policy ITN (EUTIP) is to foster interdisciplinary research into the evolving international trade policy of the EU with a view to create a significantly increased European knowledge base and research capacity on EU law and policy of the regulation of international trade through free trade agreements (FTAs) with third countries, thus helping Europe to safeguard the benefits of international trade (wealth, jobs, etc.) while addressing the challenges of its regulation (competence, democracy, accountability, environmental- and labour, standards, etc.). It is argued that the EU trade and investment policy pursued through FTAs will lead to the evolution of an entirely new legal sub-discipline closely related to and originating in EU law and international trade law. This new field of law will be wide-ranging, including aspects already addressed in existing FTAs and fields of trade and competition law currently regulated in the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU), the relevant decision-making mechanisms, the relationship between the relevant legal systems, and dispute settlement. Moreover, the ITN investigates Transatlantic agreements as precedents and possible templates for third generation trade agreements of the EU with other parts of the world. The network is an interdisciplinary, intersectoral collaboration pooling world-leading researchers and practitioners from all relevant disciplines of law - EU constitutional, internal market, and external relations law, international trade law, and international law, as well as political science, international relations, business studies, and economics. EUTIP fully integrates non-academic Beneficiaries (Ben) and Partner Organisations (PO), including think tanks, lobbyists, regulatory bodies, law firms, US academic institutions, and an international organisation. Furthermore, the network will support and enhance the process of converting research results into policy papers through partnership with high-impact policy research units at the forefront of European policy research and policy making. The work package consists of 3 substantive work packages on (1) governance, (2) regulation, and (3) multilateralism and regionalism. 15 PhD research projects will be supervised by academics of the 11 Beneficiaries with an interdisciplinary training programme covering the legal, political and economic foundations of EU trade and investment policy and an interdisciplinary and intersectoral programme of secondments involving 18 Partner Organisations.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · BirminghamCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
  • American Institute of Contemporary German Studies · Washington DCUnited States
  • BRUEGEL · BRUXELLESBelgium
  • Baker & McKenzie · Frankfurt am MainGermany
  • Business Europe · BruselasBelgium
  • CEN/CENELEC · BruxellesBelgium
  • CENTRE D'ETUDES PROSPECTIVES ET D'INFORMATIONS INTERNATIONALES · ParisFrance
  • CENTRE D'INFORMATION ET DE RECHERCHE SUR L'ECONOMIE MONDIALE · ParisFrance
  • CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
  • CITY ST GEORGES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · LONDONUnited Kingdom
  • EGMONT - INSTITUT ROYAL DES RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES · BruxellesBelgium
  • EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · ZuerichSwitzerland
  • ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM · RotterdamNetherlands
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CORPORATION · WASHINGTON DCUnited States
  • GERMAN UNIVERSITY OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES · SpeyerGermany
  • Graf von Westphalen Rechtsanwaelte · KölnGermany
  • Herdem Attorneys at Law · IstanbulTürkiye
  • ICC Italy · RomaItaly
  • ICC Spain · BarcelonaSpain
  • IFO INSTITUT LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FUR WIRTSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG AN DER UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN EV · MuenchenGermany
  • INSTITUT FUER WELTWIRTSCHAFT LEIBNIZ ZENTRUM ZUR ERFORSCHUNG GLOBALER OKONOMISCHER HERAUSFORDERUNGEN · KielGermany
  • International Training Centre of ILO · TorinoItaly
  • LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · PlaneggGermany
  • NAUTADUTILH NV · ROTTERDAMNetherlands
  • RAND EUROPE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY · CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGESHIREUnited Kingdom
  • STICHTING ONDERZOEK MULTINATIONALEONDERNEMINGEN · AmsterdamNetherlands
  • STICHTING T.M.C. ASSER INSTITUUT · Den HaagNetherlands
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · NottinghamUnited Kingdom
  • The Hague Institute for Global Justice · The HagueNetherlands
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO · TorinoItaly
  • UNIVERSITAT PASSAU · PassauGermany
  • UNIVERSITE PARIS I PANTHEON-SORBONNE · ParisFrance
  • UNIVERSITEIT GENT · GentBelgium
  • Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. · Frankfurt am MainGermany
  • Wilmer Hale · BerlinGermany

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