Chinese investment in Europe dropped to lowest level since 2010 last yr

Just €6.8bn in 2023, from MERICS / Rhodium report

merics.org/en/report/dwin…

📢New paper alert! Panos Delimatsis discusses trade and investment in digital services in an increasingly polarized international economic order and the challenges arising in the context of international investment law.

🔗papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

DONE 👋- EU ministers agreed to hike tariffs on Russia/Belarus grain imports from July 1, to:

✅stop Russian grain from destabilising 🇪🇺 farm sector
✅restrict Russia revenues to fund its war on Ukraine
✅tackle illegal Russian exports of stolen Ukraine grain into EU markets

Wow! The special issue on ETSI starts taking shape! This is another European Research Council (ERC) deliverable of our Resilient Private Regulation project! Contributions by Mariolina Eliantonio & Annalisa Volpato , Irene Kamara, Marta Cantero , Olia Kanevskaia Michelle Egan are already available👇 TILEC

🤩Excited to see more articles from our special issue on legitimacy
& resilience of ETSI w Panos Delimatsis Stéphanie Bijlmakers published in The European Journal of Social Science Research. Read here Irene Kamara take on 🇪🇺cybersecurity #standards & #CRA tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New TILEC Discussion Paper on #digital #services , #servicification & int'l #investmentlaw , now on SSRN . I discuss the dynamics of services #trade , the #Uber case in Colombia & the #TikTok US ban through the prism of IIL. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society Tilburg Law School

Ayoub El Kaabi donne la victoire à l'Olympiakos dans une ambiance de folie ! 🔥

C'est la 1ère coupe d'Europe remportée par un club Grec 😍

#OLYFIO | #UECLfinal

Ergin Ataman has fulfilled his promise and brought back the EuroLeague trophy to Panathinaikos after 1⃣3⃣ years ✊

Economists forecast $500bn annual hit from new Trump tariffs via Financial Times
on.ft.com/3yqANJ9

The 2024 Summer Law School on International Investment Law, co-organized by ELSAAthens and Athens PIL, will take place in Athens between July 14 and July 21, 2024! For more information, visit the link below. Application period closes on May 26, 2024.

athenspil.law.uoa.gr/conferences/su…

In context of what I will diplomatically call ‘a lot of turbulence’ in tradeland - & against the odds APEC Secretariat #Trade Ministers issued their 1st consensus statement in 3 years. Credit & thanks 2 our generous hosts/chair ⁦⁦⁦APEC Perú 2024⁩ 1/2 apec.org/meeting-papers…

So, Geert Wilders finally has a government of his own. But what does it actually plan to do?

A summary of what we know so far - some of it predictable and some more shocking:

The claim that import tariffs are not passed through to domestic prices flies in the face of abundant evidence (multiple published studies) from the Trump tariffs

My take on the green subsidies trade war. Put up tariffs if you must, but the moral, economic, environmental arguments are on the side of those that subsidize green products, not those who want to tax them. project-syndicate.org/commentary/gre…

Hop Schwiiz!!! #Eurovision2024

Europa -pa -pa!!! 🫶🥲 #eurovision2024

Am reading the TikTok v. Garland complaint. 1/ 🧵

He made it! Rockstar Panos Delimatsis is in da house.

Heading to ⁦CEPRI - Centre for Private Governance⁩ in beautiful Copenhagen where I will be talking about #TBT , #standards #PTAs and #ESOs #legitimacy . In good company with ⁦Harm Schepel⁩ and Hans Micklitz as keynotes. Thanks to Vibe Ulfbeck and ⁦Rodrigo Vallejo Garretón⁩ for the kind invite!