The policy world is getting back to work comparatively early in August this year. Some serious meetings and talks are being held this week on transatlantic trade relations and on Brexit.
Author: Iana Dreyer
Commentary: Making the Trump-Juncker deal ‘stick’
This week’s White House trade truce between the European Union and the United States will only stick if the two sides manage to enter a genuinely structured dialogue process. That won’t be easy. Jean-Claude Juncker’s success in cajoling US President Donald Trump to sign a joint statement is a diplomatic …
Article 50 talks: EU and UK vow to gear up work following London’s White Paper
The nomination of Dominic Raab as the UK’s new Brexit secretary and the recent take-over of the talks by the Prime Minister in person are having an effect on the tone and substance of Britain’s withdrawal negotiations from the EU with Brussels.
Trump and Juncker secure a ‘win’ on trade
One thing must be said about Jean-Claude Juncker’s skills as an international diplomat during his visit to the White House: he accomplished his mission, which was simply to ease transatlantic trade tensions. Juncker importantly won over the US to the notion of World Trade Organization reform, a new project championed …
WTO : UK circulates its post-Brexit tariff schedule
The United Kingdom today formally circulated its first tariff schedule as a would-be standalone member of the World Trade Organization, independent from the European Union. WTO members have three months review the schedule and raise objections if necessary. The UK wants to have its own schedule ready ahead of Brexit …
Brexit Notes: Did the EU go too far?
An ‘orderly’ withdrawal of Britain from the European Union looks increasingly unlikely this summer. Unless both sides find a solution to the Irish border quickly, that is. Or politics in Britain change dramatically. Or the EU changes its approach. Or a bit of everything. Britain had hoped to resolve the Irish …
(What) a Week in Brussels: Trump, Airbus, CETA, no-deal Brexit
It’s as if everything absolutely had to happen before everyone goes on holiday: inking a deal with Japan, holding a summit with China that actually delivers on a joint statement, launching a WTO reform initiative, introducing steel safeguards, slapping dumping duties on electric bikes and making progress on Mercosur negotiations. …
E-bikes: Up to 83.6% China duties to protect EU sector with rising sales and no job losses
The established European bicycle sector has been rattled by a consumer switch to electric bikes and a surge in imports of both electric and conventional bicycles from China. That might help explain why bicycle producers obtained protection in the form of provisional dumping duties on Chinese e-bikes.
Mercosur talks gain new momentum, though endgame still elusive
EU-Mercosur free trade negotiations gained new momentum during day-and-a-half talks among seven South American ministers and EU negotiators in Brussels. No deal was clinched, but diplomats on the Mercosur side say the ‘endgame’ is within reach. “The talks are going well,” European trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström said today. The parties …
Flash: EU Mercosur FTA ministerial meeting sees progress
We at Borderlex tend to be prudent in making any predictions on final stages of difficult FTA negotiations: situations can be fickle. And it’s still very early to say anything firm about the EU Mercosur negotiations. The talks are in their final stages and the parties have been seeking an …
