Fredrik Erixon

Nov 19, 2024 | ecipe.org | Fredrik Erixon

As Europe now ponders the next four years with Donald Trump in the White House, the dominant thought seems to be that he’s yet again got his eyes on Europe. Last week, both Emmanuel Macron and Mario Draghi warned about Trump soon putting huge tariffs on EU exports to the US. And hasn’t Trump threatened to pull out of NATO?

Nov 5, 2024 | ecipe.org | Fredrik Erixon

It was an event that looked like a thought. Rishi Sunak called this summer’s British election the Fourth of July: America’s Independence Day, the date when the thirteen American colonies broke away from Britain itself. What Americans celebrate is that the Second Continental Congress, on the Fourth of July, 1776, approved the Declaration of Independence. Its basic doctrine was revolutionary – and still is.

Oct 16, 2024 | ecipe.org | Fredrik Erixon

My thesis in this essay is that we now live in an era of anti-economics. Just like antimatter is the opposite of ordinary matter, the Western public policy discourse now seems permeated by anti-economics – the opposite of ordinary or basic economics.*I readily admit that politics rarely have been a theatre for sophisticated economic arguments – a space where intelligent people have met to diagnose economic problems and come up with rational cures.

Sep 25, 2024 | ecipe.org | Fredrik Erixon

In a new book, Niklas Swanström, Fredrik Erixon and Mrittika Huha Sarkar take a deeper look at key geoeconomics issues and ask what the US and the EU can do to improve economic security in a world economy dependent on deep global supply chains. With new technological developments and geopolitical shifts, it is crucial for the US and the EU to understand economic threats and manage them competently.

May 23, 2024 | ecipe.org | Fredrik Erixon

In the French city of Tours, in the heart of the Loire Valley, we can find an explanation for Europe’s turbulent politics. Geert Wilders has recently won the Dutch election. Putin ally Robert Fico is back as the Prime Minister of Slovakia. Giorgia Meloni, with her political roots in Italy’s post-fascist movement, remains securely in power. Viktor Orban shows no signs of planning his departure. The European Parliament elections are expected to lead to further successes for nationalists and populists.