News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
The European Commission released its annual report on its trade defence activity. Every year, the piece highlights key trends in the overall direction of this line of policy. While the quantity of trade defence cases has risen slightly, the focus of the Commission is on better enforcement of existing measures …
MEPs are sharpening up the European Parliament’s position ahead of negotiations with the Council and the European Commission aimed at finalising a long-awaited regulation that would potentially put up barriers for bidders on public procurement markets in Europe.
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The European Union’s trade policy agenda will be overshadowed by a hiatus in the coming months as the Franco-German duo faces domestic elections. Nonetheless, pathbreaking legislation ranging from procurement to supply chains could still make headway.
If anything, this week in trade in Brussels was about preparing the ground for what comes next in the autumn 2021.
It’s taken former General Council chair David Walker about one month to figure out what members of the world trade institution in Geneva would likely want to negotiate on in the area of trade and health post-pandemic. Among others, Walker hopes that WTO members could agree quickly on a framework …
This last week of July 2021 will see a frenzy of activity at the World Trade Organization as Brussels quiets down and London too – although one cannot exclude new developments in the Northern Ireland file as the EU prepares to bring legal action against the the United Kingdom to …
One things needs to be said : it is busy in around the World Trade Organization again. Discussions are generally now over substance and the destructive dynamics at play in the Trump era are much less visible – although it is not the US alone in wielding the zero-sum veto game. …
The EU and New Zealand released this week their versions of the last round of negotiations towards their goal of concluding a free trade agreement The main highlight of the round was the EU’s second market access offer to New Zealand. Whereas the EU is optimistic an agreement will soon …
The United States have announced they would join the ongoing Services Domestic Regulations plurilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organization.
