News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Part Two of the recent Turkey-EU trade dispute settlement saga around pharmaceuticals and steel is ending today with a panel report that goes easy on Brussels in its handling of its 2018 steel safeguard measure. Even if the panel did not give the EU a clean slate in the way …
The MPIA will once again have to wait. But Turkey and the EU are setting a precedent by using an alternative World Trade Organization appeals mechanism to settle their legal scores as the appellate body continues to lie dormant.
The European Parliament’s international trade committee has adopted by unanimity its report on the European Union’s coming foreign subsidies regulation. The new piece of legislation aims at subjecting foreign investors to the same type of subsidy control system as EU firms operating in its single market’s state-aide regime. The move …
Observers of the ongoing Energy Charter Treaty modernisation negotiations tend to concur: the process is dominated by the European Union and its desire to have an overhauled treaty by mid 2022. After twelve rounds of negotiations among the more than fifty members of the ECT, the contours of a potential …
The European Parliament is on a path to making the EU’s planned anti-coercion instrument even tougher than envisaged by the European Commission – and putting it most likely at loggerheads with the Council.
The current French presidential contest is tight and tense. The outcome of the run-off vote in ten days that will oppose incumbent Emmanuel Macron and the national-populist Marine Le Pen will determine whether the European Union as we know it has a future. Speaking of trade policy in this context …
After the fifth round European Union of sanctions against Russia enacted on Friday (8 April), one can almost say the EU, in sync with its allies, is enacting a blockade against the country whose government has invaded Ukraine and committed atrocious war crimes there. Russia itself has responded in recent …
Much is in flux in the European Union’s geostrategic – hence also trade policy – positioning following the war in Ukraine. A lot will also depend on how China positions itself on this matter in the coming weeks and months. But diversification of trade relationships is now on top of …
The European Union is preparing to impose a significant new package of trade sanctions against Russia following recent revelations of war crimes perpetrated by its army in areas where it had retreated in Ukraine in order to redeploy its forces to the east of the country.
Today’s widely anticipated EU-China summit held via videoconference mainly offered a channel of direct communication between the leaders of the Council and the European Commission on the one hand and China’s president and vice-premier on the other, amidst rising political rifts between the two sides that have been building up …
