Project description
Analysing models for future EU trade agreements worldwide
International trade and investment play a crucial role in Europe’s economy and politics. However, the challenges faced by the EU in negotiating trade agreements have highlighted the need for a comprehensive approach. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the EUTIP project will address these challenges by fostering interdisciplinary research on EU trade law and policy. By focusing on the regulation of international trade through free trade agreements with third countries, EUTIP aims to safeguard the benefits of international trade while ensuring competence, democracy, accountability, and environmental and labour standards. Bringing together leading researchers, practitioners, and organisations from various fields, the project will also analyse transatlantic agreements as models for future EU trade agreements worldwide.
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.
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MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training NetworksCoordinator
B15 2TT Birmingham
United Kingdom
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75740 Paris
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3062 PA Rotterdam
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8092 Zuerich
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10124 Torino
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67346 Speyer
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94032 Passau
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81679 Muenchen
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EC1V 0HB London
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NG7 2RD Nottingham
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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75007 Paris
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24105 Kiel
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20036 Washington DC
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2517 DEN HAAG
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Frankfurt am Main
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1210 Bruxelles / Brussel
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Bruselas
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Bruxelles
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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20052 Washington Dc
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2508CP The Hague
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Köln
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Istanbul
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Roma
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Barcelona
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Torino
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80539 Muenchen
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3014 DA ROTTERDAM
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CB2 8BF CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGESHIRE
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Frankfurt am Main
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Berlin
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9000 Gent
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75231 Paris
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1019 LA Amsterdam
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