News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
The European Commission obtained very little from Washington in terms of concessions on the Inflation Reduction Act this week. There is in fact, little the EU can do to see the United States change course. In many ways the whole diplomatic episode around US clean tech subsidies that began in …
The European Commission is an expert in brokering political compromises over seemingly technocratic topics. And it delivered this week yet again. This time it is about the question of what to do about the Biden administration’s decision to pour billions into subsidising green technology investments to meet its net-zero climate …
The EU is getting serious in securing its future supply chains as it eyes a few net-zero deadlines in 2030 and 2050 as well the phase-out of the combustion engine for automobiles in only thirteen years. This is heavily impacting its industrial, trade and investment policy – and that includes …
There is only one year to go until the next WTO ministerial conference in the United Arab Emirates and the new chair of the agriculture pillar of MC13 has plenty on his hands to work with.
Prime minister Rishi Sunak and European commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced an agreement in principle over how the protocol on Northern Ireland included in the EU-UK Withdrawal agreement is to function.
Susan Schwab, chair of the board of directors of the National Foreign Trade Council and former United States Trade Representative, sat down with Borderlex’s Iana Dreyer in Washington to discuss US-China and EU US relations.
The four countries of the European Free Trade Area are entering the new Singapore-led digital trade agreement bandwagon.
The future of the Energy Charter Treaty is on the line. The institution’s secretary-general couldn’t just stay silent.
Cognitive dissonance on trade policy across the Atlantic is nothing new. But it is reaching new levels as United States tensions with China grow. These are some impressions on the state of the transatlantic trade gained during a visit to Washington.
Those in the trade policy world who are looking for some big bang announcement from the European Commission as part of its ‘response’ to the United States Inflation Reduction Act will be disappointed – or relieved, depending on their point of view. The Green Deal Industrial Plan, a leaked version …
