The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 23 – with economist Matthias Bauer
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🗓️ 31 August 2022
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Summary
Matthias Bauer is a German economist and Director at European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), a think tank based in Brussels dedicated to supporting free trade. He works on EU and global trade policy with a focus on digital and technology policymaking.
In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses the following topics with him:
- How to assess the two new import EU legislative initiatives to regulate the digital sector, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA)? Will these foster innovation, or, on the contrary, constitute an extra contribution to Europe losing competitiveness?
- The concept of “Strategic Autonomy” and the future of globalization. Is there a danger of the West decoupling from the rest of the world?
- The OECD’s Pillar I (redistributing corporate tax income) and II (minimum tax rates) initiatives
- What to think of the Western sanctions against Russia?
- The proposed EU external Climate tariff CBAM: will it effectively function as EU protectionism? This is a topic often covered by ECIPE.
- Lobbying in the Brussels bubble: Is it normal that green and other groups funded by the European Commission also lobby that institution? A question also raised in a 2019 paperauthored by Bauer.
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| 0:00.0 | The Brussels Report Podcast |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to a new episode of the Brussels Report podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Peter Klepper. I'm the editor-in-chief of Brusselsreport. |
| 0:23.1 | EU. And it's really great to have as my guest today, Matthias Bauer, who is an economist. He's a |
| 0:31.3 | director of the European Centre for International Political Economy, or EYSype, which is a great think tank based |
| 0:42.5 | here in Brussels. |
| 0:44.4 | It's important to mention that this think tank receives no EU money. |
| 0:49.8 | It's even enshrined in its statutes that is not allowed to receive EU money, which I would think |
| 0:56.5 | is very important if you want to comment a certain subject that you're not funded by the same |
| 1:02.0 | subject. |
| 1:03.0 | But clearly that's not always the case in the Brussels bubble, to put it mildly. |
| 1:08.0 | Matthias has been there for 10 years. He's very experienced in EU policy. Before that, |
| 1:13.6 | he has done his PhD in the framework of a Bundesbank program. He has also worked for the |
| 1:19.9 | Konrad Adenhower Foundation and has been active in private industry as well. |
| 1:29.4 | So welcome, Matthias. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah, hi, Peter, thanks for this nice introduction. |
| 1:35.4 | It's an honor to be here on your podcast. |
| 1:37.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:37.7 | Likewise. |
| 1:43.3 | Let's maybe start with two very topical pieces of legislation, |
| 1:48.5 | the DSA and the DMA, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Market Act. As far as I'm aware, there's no compromise on boats. It's going or it has gone, |
| 1:56.2 | I think, through the legislative process. And so please enlighten us, what is your idea on these new European regulations for the tech sector? |
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