Iana Dreyer on why pursuing TTIP this year is not in the EU’s best interest.
Author: Iana Dreyer
Your week in EU trade – in pdf
For those who love the old-fashioned pdf. Here your your week 11 in EU trade. The headlines: In brief: Germany in drive to uphold free trade, multilateralism Opinion: The UK will get a bad trade deal from the US Conflict minerals: NGOs criticise new regulation as too soft David Davis House …
David Davis House of Commons hearing: excerpts
We’ve listened into the lengthy hearing of the United Kingdom’s Secretary for Exiting the EU David Davis held on Wednesday (15 March 2017) at the House of Commons in Westminster. The hearing comes days ahead of the planned triggering of the UK’s EU withdrawal process. Below some soundbites. The hearing …
Paper: A good Brexit deal in two years is doable
A new paper by a former EU trade negotiator released by the think tank Friends of Europe argues that a Brexit that also includes a trade deal while respecting both sides’ red lines is doable in two years. The first priority however will be to secure the rights of the …
Upcoming in EU trade – 15-31 March 2017
Among others, during the second half of March 2017 in EU trade: Germany’s relationship with the United States The trigger of the Brexit process EU Mercosur trade talks Conflict minerals regulation
EU Commission mulls options to bloc politically motivated investments
Details of Commission plans to potentially screen and bloc foreign direct investments that are “politically motivated” have started leaking. The plans were initiated shortly after Germany blocked the acquisition of a German firm Aixtron by a Chinese state-owned company in late 2016, following a request by Berlin, Paris and Rome. The plans consider the …
Japan rules out early 2017 conclusion of EU FTA
Japan is not yet ready to open duty-free quotas on imports of dairy to the EU, nor is it happy with what it has gathered of the EU’s e-commerce chapter plans related to digital data flows. One week ahead of a bilateral meeting between the leadership in Brussels and …
Week 10 trade news round-up in pdf
Download Week 10 in our trade news in pdf here. The headlines: EU ASEAN trade deals: state of play Exclusive: David Martin on Scotland, Brexit and EU ASEAN trade EU and ASEAN in attempt to relaunch region to region trade deal Member states call for EU trade push Comment: On …
EU and ASEAN in attempt to relaunch region to region trade deal
The EU and the South East Asian bloc ASEAN have agreed in principle to try to re-launch talks towards a region-to-region trade agreement at a trade ministers’ meeting in Manila on Friday (10 March 2017). “The participants of today’s ministerial meeting will now task their senior officials to work out the …
Member states call for EU trade push
The Council conclusions adopted by 27 member states in the middle of the night of Thursday to Friday (9/10 March 2017) indicate the direction of travel the member states want the EU to take on trade policy in the coming months: forward. The member states say that the recent …
