The good cop, green cop routine is a familiar role European institutions will have to play
goes green, other countries will follow, runs the logic. What theregulations to ripple out from Belgium to Borneo. A combination of the’s economic size and its exacting standards means that other governments tend to adopt its rules too to save their businesses from having to abide by multiple codes.
Climate policy is the first big area where the “Brussels effect” will be properly tested. On issues such as online privacy, where the’s norms have become global ones, countries and companies fall in line because it is not especially expensive to follow suit. Likewise, timber producers in Indonesia have to abide byrules otherwise they will not be able to sell into its market. In short, the Brussels effect works when followingrules is an easy or obvious compromise to make.
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