News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
The EU and the South American trade bloc Mercosur have vowed to conclude their ongoing free trade negotiations by the end of the year 2017. Though to many the goal seems highly ambitious, both sides are trying to get there at a time when Argentina tries to take the lead …
Updated at 19:30 CET. A WTO compliance ruling released on 9 June 2017 has induced both Brussels and Washington to claim victory over a dispute involving subsidies to US aerospace company Boeing. Some experts reached by Borderlex see this latest development as being only one episode in an already twelve-year-old “proxy war” …
British voters did not fulfil Prime Minister Theresa May’s wish to obtain a stronger majority in the House of Commons than her party, the Tories, already had. The result of the general elections held in the United Kingdom on Thursday (8 June 2017) could have significant ramifications for London’s future approach to exiting …
Members of the OECD which gathered in Paris on 7 and 8 June 2017 failed to bring the US on board a joint statement that sheds a positive light on trade and the Paris Agreement on climate change. The United States Trade Representative decided to issue a separate statement. “The …
What’s happening on TTIP? Noise, that’s what’s happening. No action. There’s a lot of hoo-haa about Germany’s Angela Merkel’s recent comments in which she states she remains open to the idea of relaunching the transatlantic TTIP negotiations that were shelved around the time Donald Trump was elected president of …
Iana Dreyer takes a closer look at the trade policy proposals included in the manifestos of the four biggest parties in the UK general election to be held on Thursday (8 June 2017).
EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström is making a point of having friendly meetings in Paris at the OECD and WTO meeting being held in Paris this week. She just got over a first meeting with her brand new United States counterpart USTR Robert Lighthizer. At the time of writing …
A new paper by the Polish international affairs think tank PISM criticises the EU’s inconsistent way of dealing with the consequences of a recent Court of Justice ruling on a 2012 agriculture trade agreement with Morocco that it applied to products from Western Sahara. The EU should come clean on this issue …
The article was updated on 05/06/2017 8.25 CET. Council president Donald Tusk hailed the 19th EU China summit in Brussels this week as “the most promising summit” with China he ever attended. EU leaders held the press waiting for more than three hours before announcing little concrete steps …
“Any society needs a social contract and that social contract means a spirit of community”, the social-democrat Dutchman said. “All the other things, better regulation, better energy union, better results in the internal market – people will say okay fine but what about us what are we as a community?”, …
