Asia-Pacific FDI Forum VII

Redefining Global Governance within and beyond the EU: A Perspective on Tax, Trade, and Investment

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In conjunction with Leiden University

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Day 1: Conceptual foundations and taking stock of issues (Monday 26 June)

 

9:00am - 9:30am

Welcome and introduction to the workshop

Workshop organizers

9:30am - 10:30am

Global governance: Lessons from international relations and political science. Finding a common ground

Workshop organizers

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee break

 

11:00am - 12:30pm

Input from policymakers involved in global governance of tax, trade, and investment

Policymakers (to be invited)

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch break

 

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Identifying issues and structuring policy roadmap

 

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Coffee break

 

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Writing session (introductions to sections of policy roadmap)

 

 

 

Day 2: Decision-making at the international level (modes of governance) (Tuesday 27 June)

Potential issues to be discussed:

• Developing capacity and negotiation skills for developing countries

• Country coalitions: What coalitions exist? What factors contribute to their emergence, stability, and break-up?

• What is the contribution of supranational organizations in global governance (EU, potentially others)?

• Participation of non-state actors (businesses, experts, civil society organizations)

• Interactions between the international policy communities of tax, trade, and investment

 

9:00am - 10:30am

Presentations and discussions on decision-making issue 1 (e.g., pitching work in progress chapters)

 

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee break

 

11:00am - 12:30pm

Presentations and discussions on decision-making issue 2

 

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch break

 

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Presentations and discussions on decision-making issue 3

 

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Coffee break

 

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Writing session: Incorporating lessons of the day in policy paper and chapters

 

 

Day 3: Evaluating governance instruments (Wednesday 28 June)

• Effectiveness, fairness, issues with different governance instruments (i.e., lists of non-cooperative jurisdictions, peer review, multilateral conventions, soft law instruments, (international) adjudication, most-favoured nation treatments, aid conditionality)

• Assessing and explaining the prevalence of each type of governance instrument in each of the three regimes

• Inter-disciplinary governance instruments (i.e., instruments that contain tax, trade, and investment rules, such as EU economic partnership agreements which include clauses on good tax governance)

• How much sovereignty is given up? Evaluating the degree of pooled sovereignty in the different regimes and explaining common or divergent evolution

 

9:00am - 10:30am

Presentations and discussions on governance issue 1 (e.g., pitching work in progress chapters)

 

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee break

 

11:00am - 12:30pm

Presentations and discussions on governance issue 2

 

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch break

 

1:30pm - 3:00pm

 

 

 

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Coffee break

 

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Writing session: Incorporating lessons of the day in policy paper and chapters

 

 

Day 4: Technical problems of current international regimes in tax, trade, and investment (Thursday 29 June )

 

Identifying some technical problems that have a common structure across the three regimes and comparing how they are dealt with.

Potential technical problems to be discussed:

• Challenges of bilateralism: Comparing how the phenomenon of treaty shopping is dealt with in the three regimes

• Clash of policy areas: how are issues with conflicting norms in tax, trade, investment resolved. E.g.: Analyses of concrete cases where conflicts have arisen, whole-of-government approaches, international organizations’ work

• Transparency: How is privacy of economic actors weighed up against transparency in the three regimes

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9:00am - 10:30am

Presentations and discussions on technical problem 1 (e.g., pitching work in progress chapters)

 

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee break

 

11:00am - 12:30pm

Presentations and discussions on technical problem 2

 

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch break

 

1:30pm - 3:00pm

 

 

 

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Coffee break

 

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Writing session: Incorporating lessons of the day in policy paper and chapters

 

 

 

Day 5: Wrap-up, way forward, and Inaugural Lecture (Friday 30 June)

• Governing the relations with third countries: taking stock of the instruments and evaluating their appropriateness

 

 

9:00am - 10:30am

Finalizing policy roadmap

 

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee break

 

11:00am - 12:30pm

 

 

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch break

 

1:30pm - 2:00pm

Wrap up and closing of the workshop

 

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Free time and walk to Academy Building

 

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inaugural Lecture of Prof. Irma Mosquera Valderrama on Global Tax Governance at Academic Building, Leiden University

 

5:00pm -

Reception following the Inaugural Lecture