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Research Date 23 Jun 2022 Financing of hydrogen hubs On June 6th, the US Department of Energy (DOE) published a Notice of Intent (NOI) to release a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for at least four Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs... Read more
Research Date 16 Jun 2022 US legislative outlook: with midterms quickly approaching, what can get done? As Congress embarks on its summer work period, the calendar looms ever larger as an obstacle to passing major legislation. A quick look at the Congressional schedule reveals only a... Read more
Research Date 10 Jun 2022 The new non-aligned: a return to Cold War diplomacy? In a speech in London in late April, the British Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, declared that “faced with appalling barbarism and war crimes, which we’d hoped had been consigned to... Read more
Research Date 9 Jun 2022 On Financial Services, the UK’s route to success is through future-proofing, not tinkering If the UK is genuinely committed to being a leading global financial services centre then it is going to need to expand the public policy bandwidth and regulatory capacity available... Read more
Report Date 9 Jun 2022 A UK trade and investment strategy for food and drink: Report with the FDF Global Counsel has supported the UK Food and Drink Federation (FDF) in producing a new flagship trade and investment strategy for the UK’s food and drink sector. As the UK... Read more
Podcast Date 9 Jun 2022 “Nothing and no one is off the table”: a new UK approach to individual sanctions and dirty money? UK foreign secretary Liz Truss has declared that nothing is off-limits in terms of sanctioning individuals to put pressure on Putin and his Ukraine policy. In this week’s podcast, we... Read more
Podcast Date 2 Jun 2022 Top in Tech: Mobility policy in the UK and privacy debates in the EU Welcome to Top in Tech, your guide for navigating and understanding the European 'tech-lash', the frontline of a new push to regulate the technology sector. Each month, the Global Counsel... Read more
Research Date 1 Jun 2022 “Mini-nukes” could play vital role in decarbonization - if they can get to market on time Introducing Global Counsel’s Small Modular Reactor Matrix Proponents of the next generation of nuclear power plants, known as small modular reactors (SMRs), suggest that SMRs offer substantial advancements over traditional... Read more
Research Date 30 May 2022 Confiscating Russian assets: a new frontier for sanctions? In his speech to Davos last week, President Zelensky proposed that frozen Russian assets “should be allocated to a special fund to compensate all the victims of the war”, adding... Read more
Report Date 27 May 2022 Regulating the future workplace: what businesses want from policymakers in the changing world of work Regulating the future workplace is Global Counsel’s new report on the future of employment regulation. The report examines the impact of technology on our workplaces and considers the views of... Read more
Podcast Date 27 May 2022 Australian elections: the international implications After almost a decade of centre-right leadership, Anthony Albanese emerged as Australia’s new Prime Minister following this week's elections. Yet uncertainty remains; Albanese's Labor Party ran on few policy specifics... Read more
Research Date 24 May 2022 The reality facing the energy transition Although the Biden administration has prioritized the US energy transition like no previous administration has, we are seeing a surge in fossil fuel extraction, export, and use. The Russian invasion... Read more
Podcast Date 20 May 2022 The geopolitics of: technology standards Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there’s been a lot of talk about the return of history. post-1989 assumptions that liberal democracy and open markets were the single models on... Read more
Research Date 20 May 2022 NATO’s Nordic expansion: A recipe for enhanced security or geopolitical jeopardy? On Wednesday, Finland and Sweden submitted official applications to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). For decades, these countries have favoured military non-alignment. So why have they abandoned this... Read more
Research Date 19 May 2022 New EU-US data transfer agreement: Reynders’ digital policy moment? This week, the Trade and Technology Council (TTC), which has become the main forum for EU-US cooperation on digital policy, met for the second time in Saclay, on the outskirts... Read more
Research Date 17 May 2022 Permits please: three tests for REPowerEU 2.0 A core lesson across infrastructure projects is all too often the attention has been on ambitious targets, rather than the nitty-gritty of delivery. This is timely as we look ahead... Read more
Report Date 17 May 2022 Food donation to prevent food waste: meeting the EU’s food waste reduction targets Global Counsel in partnership with the European Food Banks Federation (FEBA) has published FEBA’s position paper communicating the position of FEBA and its members on the European Commission’s proposal for... Read more
Research Date 16 May 2022 Terra’s collapse has intensified U.S. regulatory scrutiny surrounding stablecoins. What’s next? Last week’s price collapse of algorithmic stablecoin Terra has highlighted regulatory concerns surrounding stablecoins as U.S. policymakers have continued to examine potential policy frameworks for the growing asset class. As... Read more