Bulletin n. 1/2009
July 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Evenett Simon J.
    “Murky protectionism” in Europe: How should binding rules be evaluated in tough times?
    in Intereconomics , Volume 44, Number 2 / March, 2009 ,  2009 ,  70-71
    European governments have reacted to the worst Continent-wide deterioration in economic performance in several generations with a plethora of interventions. Not all of these interventions are nationality-blind, that is, some seek to overtly or covertly discriminate against foreign commercial entities or workers. Worse, as Richard Baldwin and I have recently argued (in our recent voxEU collection of such matters titled “The collapse of global trade, murky protectionism, and the crisis: Recommendations for the G20”, available at www.voxeu.org), some of the very measures taken to stimulate national economies have discrimination against foreigners buried within them. Fears about such “murky protectionism” are particularly hard to dispel, as it is far less transparent than overt trade policy measures such as tariffs and quotas. Politicians fi nd pressures to retaliate harder to resist when the mere accusation of foreign protectionism cannot be obviously and costlessly rebutted.
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