News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
The European Parliament’s trade committee endorsed a report initiated by Marietje Schaake calling for an EU digital trade strategy and for expediting policies to secure free flows of data across borders. The Schaake report makes recommendations to policymakers on e-commerce, net neutrality and online consumer protection, among others. The …
EU and Mercosur negotiators agreed to prolong for another seven days a marathon two-week round of negotiations scheduled to start on 27 November. This means there will be a three-week stretch to get close to a deal before the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Buenos Aires, on the sidelines …
“Both sides are doing their homework at the moment,” a Mercosur official told Borderlex. The European Union and the South American bloc are preparing a final exchange of politically highly sensitive market-access offers in free trade negotiations that the European Commission wants to declare concluded by year-end. Confidence that …
EU foreign ministers and High Representative Federica Mogherini are gathering in Myanmar for the Asia-Europe Meeting, where representatives of more than 50 countries get together for dialogue on anything ranging from security to migration to ‘connectivity’. The final communique of ASEM is not expected to mention the dramatic Rohingya refugee …
Britain’s secretary of state for leaving the European Union was in Berlin on Thursday (17 November 2017) on a mission to win over Germany to some British proposals on the future relationship between the bloc and a United Kingdom that is set to leave the 28-member country bloc. In …
The EU and Japan have stabilised the text of their Economic Partnership Agreement concluded politically in July this year and are heading towards signing an agreement in December 2017. Both sides hope the Council can agree to the text during the spring 2018, Borderlex understands. The main deal would …
Animal welfare is set to become an increasingly important priority in the EU’s free trade agreements with major meat exporters such as South America, Mexico and, soon, Australia and New Zealand. Ever since the Lisbon Treaty in 2009 introduced the notion in EU fundamental law that animals are “sentient …
The European Parliament endorsed by an overwhelming majority a new piece of trade defence legislation that amends EU methods to determine the normal value of a product and injury to domestic industry from dumping. The legislation comes as the EU prepares to drop countries like China and Vietnam from …
The European Commission has released a new ‘aid for trade’ strategy. After spending close to €97 billion in trade-related aid between 2007 and 2015, the EU is now reassessing its priorities. Brussels’ new focus will be on helping as a priority the world’s least developed countries and fragile states. …
Updated on 13 November 2017 at 14.45 CET. The EU is preparing to launch negotiations with Chile to update their 2002 Association Agreement and include new topics such as services trade, procurement, agriculture and new rules on sustainable development, gender equality, possibly protection of indigenous peoples. Member states …
