The EU is running late in tabling its text on data flows in TiSA due to internal Commission wranglings over data privacy.
Author: Iana Dreyer
Signs of EU trade slowdown in 2016
Eurostat released fresh data offering first indications of how the EU has fared in its goods trade so far in 2016. The trend is clearly downward, with EU 28 exports to the rest of the world in the first seven months of 2016 plunging 13 percent compared to the same period last year. …
Parliament greenlights EU SADC agreement
The European Parliament agreed to the EU’s Economic Partnership Agreement with the Southern African Development Community. The region-to-region trade deal was adopted in June 2016, after more than a decade of negotiations. The EPA introduces reciprocal preferential market access between the EU on the one hand, and Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and South …
Jean-Claude Juncker presses for CETA
Commission president Juncker called on the EU to ratify CETA, the trade agreement with Canada concluded in February, and urged member states to accept reforms to the EU’s antidumping laws. “One billion more worth of exports creates fourteen thousand extra jobs in Europe”, Juncker said. “This is in …
CJEU: Advocate General slams 2015 Morocco trade agreement ruling
The EU Council has increased its chances to win an appeal against a ruling by the General Court in December 2015 that invalidated a 2012 EU trade agreement with Morocco because it purportedly did not take into account human rights considerations in the territory of Western Sahara. The Advocate General’s opinion released today …
Oranges and sugar concerns put EU Southern Africa trade deal ratification at risk
Orange grove in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
Germany: how minority groups have come to dominate the public debate on TTIP
Origin of the graph: Matthias Bauer, ECIPE. Has Germany’s public debate on TTIP been hijacked by two minority political parties? At least some evidence is now emerging that the discussion on the transatlantic treaty has been distorted by a highly active network of ‘civil society’ groups gravitating around the …
In brief: Glimpses of TTIP’s institutional setup
TTIP’s institutional setup is shaping up to become quite inclusive. Too much perhaps? The ten ‘textual proposals’ the EU Commission tabled to the United States Trade Representative during the fourtenth round of negotiations in July are gradually being unplucked and analysed by experts. Elaine Fahey is one of those geeky law …
Week 12 September 2016 in EU trade
This week is expected to be relatively quiet in terms of decisions in EU trade policy. A lot is happening in the background now that the countdown to the informal meeting of the foreign affairs council (trade) on 22/23 September on CETA, TTIP and China MES has set in. The …
Monthly brief – Free traders and anti trade MEPs – not (always) those you might think
By Doru Frantescu Which members of the European Parliament – MEPs – are the most in favour of free trade and which, to the contrary, are the most opposed to it? Not necessarily those you might think, our latest VoteWatch Europe study shows. We have used the European …
