News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
The attempt at building compromise positions between the environment committee and other political groups last week ahead of today’s vote on on a range of climate measures – including the EU’s carbon border adjustment measure – has failed. At today’s plenary session MEPs failed to adopt CBAM and referred it …
It’s been a decisive week. EU sanctions regime ventures into new* services export restrictions European Union member states finally agreed on a sixth package of sanctions targeting Russia. The highlight of this package is a partial oil embargo – six-month phase in and piped oil excluded – on imports from …
The legislative saga of the coming anti-coercion instrument has now begun. The regulation was tabled in December last year. The EU’s member states will likely take their time in defining their response to the European Commission’s regulatory proposal for what is termed the ‘ACI’ in the jargon. But the European …
European Commission officials under the leadership of director for trade Sabine Weyand and Taiwan’s economy minister Mei-Hua Wang held the first of what is expected to become an upgraded annual bilateral dialogue on trade and investment.
Borderlex’s Iana Dreyer spoke to Taiwan’s Deputy Minister for Economic Affairs C.C. Chen during his recent visit to Brussels. The conversation covered Taiwan’s pandemic-era trade strategy, the new global trend towards establishing ‘dialogues’ and ‘partnerships’ in trade – and the EU in all this.
S Iswaran, Singapore’s Minister-in-Charge of Trade Relations spoke to Borderlex’s founder Iana Dreyer about his country’s’ vision for 21st century trade policy and how the European Union fits in all this. The conversation covers digital, tackling supply chain issues and the climate challenge.
The European Union and the United States have concluded their joint statement ahead of their second Trade and Technology Council meeting. Officials from Brussels and Washington will converge on Saclay near Paris on Sunday to sign off on a more than 50-page document, which they are due to unveil on …
Is this the European Union’s approach to ‘digital partnerships’ in the Indo-Pacific just fluff? At the very least one can say it is much too timid.
The EU US Trade and Technology Council has somewhat fallen off global headlines amid the war in Ukraine and the related fallout for the global economy, global supply chains and global politics. But despite its structural weaknesses as a forum to deepen economic ties across the Atlantic, it is defying …
The European Union’s member states, the European Commission and the European Parliament will start inter-institutional trilogue negotiations on the EU’s new foreign subsidies regulation as soon as this week. Despite some differences in their approach capitals and member states are set to converge on a piece of legislation that might …
