News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Among trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström’s pledges in her 2015 ‘Trade for All’ strategy there is stepping up the fight against corruption. This promise is gradually being translated into action with new anti-corruption provisions foreseen in the coming updated EU Mexico Global Agreement and recently launched EU Chile Association Agreement upgrade. …
EU member states are gradually accepting to exercise greater transparency in their joint trade policy making. The Council today released the negotiating mandate it gave the European Commission towards the modernisation of the 2002 EU-Chile Association Agreement, a very early move by member-state standards. The mandate itself reveals high EU …
The EU and Chile are launching formal talks to upgrade their 2002 Association Agreement this week in Santiago. For both parties, the initiative has greater ‘geostrategic’ than actual economic significance, although for Chile in particular, economics also matter. Diversification and geostrategy Chile is traditionally the leading free …
