News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Monday, June 23, 2025
It’s been a week heavy on Brexit-related trade news and transatlantic. Over at the WTO e-commerce negotiations officially started on Wednesday (separate article in a couple of hours). Doing something useful for yourself for and women in trade It’s international women’s day today. So this is a good moment to …
The European Parliament will vote next Thursday on a motion for a resolution on EU-US trade negotiations that will offer the political background music to a highly contentious process.
Britain’s upper house has approved motions calling for the United Kingdom to remain within a customs union with the European Union, and for enhanced parliamentary scrutiny of future UK free trade agreement negotiations.
The European Parliament is set to decide whether it will vote next week in plenary on a divisive resolution adopted last month to back up the European Union’s plan to launch trade negotiations with the United States.
Georgia, a small country in the Caucasus with a ‘frozen conflict’ on its territory ever since the 2008 war with Russia, has been eager to grow closer to the European Union. Despite pressing state-building priorities and a worrisome internal security situation, Tbilisi has proven diligent in implementing its 2014 ‘deep …
Here’s a preview and selection of meetings to watch on EU trade. Transatlantic This week an EU delegation will fly over to Washington to bring forward transatlantic trade files. The Commission’s secretary general Martin Selmayr is expected to meet Larry Kudlow in the White House to discuss auto tariffs and …
This week the news focus has been on WTO, China and Brexit. Here some other interesting bits of Brussels trade news for you. US auto tariffs: Habeck says EU retaliation should target digital, airlines In an interview with the leading German business daily Handelsblatt this week, Robert Habeck, one of …
Palm oil growers have signalled they could take the European Union to the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement body over its new biofuels regulation. The EU is preparing a definitive version of a ‘delegated act’ pertaining to its new Renewable Energy Directive that sets the environmental criteria required for biofuels …
Geneva officials are busy with meetings at the World Trade Organization. Ahead of Friday’s General Council meeting where we can expect a big showdown on all things Appellate Body and WTO ‘reform’, here a short update on some other committee meetings held so far this week. The focus was Brexit …
