News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Monday, April 28, 2025
It’s been an eventful week in Brussels. EU-Japan FTA – on track The EU and Japan finalised their free trade agreement negotiations this morning. The full text of the deal will be available in a few days. These FTA negotiations were politically concluded this summer. Negotiators worked …
It’s taken business lobby groups in the EU a long time to figure out what the UK’s departure from the bloc will mean for companies in the remaining 27 member states. Now, all minds are focused on the risks of a cliff-edge Brexit as failure of the divorce talks becomes …
This week could seal the fate of quite a few EU trade policy files: the overhaul of the EU’s dumping regulation, the EU Mercosur trade deal and the Brexit talks. TDI reform agreement? Expectations are high that the EU will announce a deal tomorrow on the overhaul of …
As the date of Brexit approaches, Britain and various European Union trading partners are multiplying contacts with London to gauge what their future trade relationship will be once the UK leaves the bloc. As conversations with these countries deepen, the task appears increasingly complex. Current contacts with Australia and Switzerland reveal …
Borderlex’s Iana Dreyer on why services exports matter to Britain and how the EU single market compares to other free trade agreements in boosting the UK’s export prowess.
Welcome to a new weekly column ‘A week in Brussels’ with the highlights of the trade week in Brussels. I hope you enjoy it! The trade week in Brussels ends with an understated Eastern Partnership summit. It brings together of a group of disparate countries traumatised by the Ukraine crisis …
British International Trade Secretary Liam Fox held talks with a range of high-level officials in Geneva today and yesterday, with his main message being a reiteration of the UK’s commitment to the World Trade Organization and global commerce. Following a busy day of discussions with officials including WTO Deputy …
Britain’s secretary of state for leaving the European Union was in Berlin on Thursday (17 November 2017) on a mission to win over Germany to some British proposals on the future relationship between the bloc and a United Kingdom that is set to leave the 28-member country bloc. In …
The twenty-eight page bill tabled by Britain’s secretary of state for international trade Liam Fox to the House of Commons on Tuesday (7 November 2017) in London has met with some consternation among observers: it says very little about Britain’s plans for trade outside the EU. “There seems almost …
Work on future trade policy in the Department for International Trade in London appears to have geared up in recent months, shortly after the arrival of Crawford Falconer as new permanent secretary in charge of overseeing trade negotiations at the end of the summer 2017. A hearing in the House …
