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The UK’s secretary of state for international trade, Liz Truss chairs a CPTPP head of mission roundtable, July 2020. Pippa Fowles/No 10 Downing Street, CC BY-NC-ND

June 23, 2021

The UK wants to join a Pacific trade deal – why that might not be a risk worth taking

Louise Curran, TBS Education and Jappe Eckhardt, University of York

The CPTPP probably won’t invigorate post-Brexit Britain economically, and it could even be dangerous, geopolitically speaking.

European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Dimitrisvetsikas1969/Pixabay

April 19, 2021

The EU’s mysterious missing lobbyists: why haven’t firms been more active arguing against protectionism?

Louise Curran, TBS Education and Jappe Eckhardt, University of York

Rising protectionism has the potential to have major negative effects on many European companies, yet firms have been largely absent from the public conversation. Why?

An Ottawa high school student looks at plain cigarette packaging examples on World No Tobacco Day in May 2016. Tobacco companies are railing against Ottawa’s plans for plain cigarette packaging in Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

September 23, 2018

Big Tobacco’s opposition to plain packaging is plain spin

Julia Smith, Simon Fraser University; Benjamin Hawkins, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Jappe Eckhardt, University of York, and Ross MacKenzie, Macquarie University

The Canadian government is currently drafting regulations on plain packaging for cigarettes. Tobacco companies are trying to weaken the regulations via lobbying and misleading PR campaigns.

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