This was your week 20 in EU trade. Download here. Fifteen EU member states call for progress in data flow text in EU Japan In brief: Sri Lanka gets GSP+ back, Philippines fears losing it EU Korea trade deal amendment in balance as MEPs criticize labour rights In brief: MEPs …
Author: Iana Dreyer
Fifteen EU member states call for progress in data flow text in EU Japan
A group of 15 EU member states has called on the EU Commission to step up efforts to draw up a common position that secures free cross border data flows in free trade agreements. The move comes at a time when the EU is finalising its four year old …
In brief: Sri Lanka gets GSP+ back, Philippines fears losing it
Sri Lanka regained its lost ‘GSP Plus’ status on Friday (19 May 2017). The country lost the preferential market access status in 2010 following government human right abuses in the context of its crackdown on the Tamil Tiger rebellion. Since 2015, the new government under Ranil Wickremesinghe has fought hard …
Blog – New French government – elusive picture on trade
Newly elected French president Emmanuel Macron has named the team he wants to work with: 22 ministers and secretaries of state under the supervision of prime minister Edouard Philippe. It’s early to say anything on French government attitudes to trade going forward, but as it stands let’s expect continuity. …
ECJ says investor-state dispute settlement not exclusive EU remit
The long-awaited ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU on the division of competences between Brussels and the member states on the content of the 2013/2014 free trade agreement with Singapore settles many perpetual power tussles between Brussels and the capitals on a variety of trade-related topics. The …
Merkel says ready to talk with Macron on “reciprocity” in trade
Emmanuel Macron, France’s freshly inaugurated President, met Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin today. Germans wonder whether he is making the EU more protectionist. But Merkel welcomes his insistence on demanding greater reciprocity in market openings from European trading partners. Quizzed by the press about his plans to introduce a Buy European Act …
China’s Belt and Road: EU and Britain ask for share of the pie
China wanted to make the now-closing Belt and Road Forum a major global summit. But only 20 heads of state responded to invitations from Beijing. Western nations mostly sent ministers. It was nonetheless a big bash. OBOR, as the new ‘Silk Road’ initiative is called, is a plan by Beijing …
Week ahead in EU trade – 15 to 19 May 2017
This week, we will finally know what the European Court of Justice thinks of the allocation of competences between the EU and the member states on the EU-Singapore trade agreement. The judgement will be given tomorrow morning Tuesday (16 May 2017). The court is expected to follow Advocate General Sharpston’s overall …
Updates: Barnier in Ireland, Lightizer, TDI, CETA
The last days have been filled with bits and bobs of information on EU trade worth sharing:
Weeks 18 and 19 in EU trade – pdf
Please find HERE weeks 18 and 19 in our EU trade news collated for pdf readers.
