News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, April 25, 2025
The United Kingdom has acquiesced to the European Union’s request to extend provisional application of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement until 30 April 2021. London continues to refuse to formally establish the EU-UK Partnership Council foreseen in the agreement as long as the deal is not ratified by the …
It’s been an eventful week, dominated by the new EU trade strategy or Trade Policy Review. Below, other important developments…
This has been a very odd week, strangely busy with little actually happening in terms of decisions. The EU is preparing the ground for many further developments. Some more on this below.
The European Parliament is preparing to ratify the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement before the end of the month. The foreign affairs and international trade committees, who run the scrutiny process are accelerating the pace and have already secured input from all relevant committees. This input indicates the European Parliament …
This article was updated on 30 January. The European Commission released a regulation submitting exports of vaccines covered by the European Union’s advanced purchase programme to an export license. The move comes days after Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced a ‘transparency’ mechanism for such exports as a row …
Africa, Latin America, India, procurement: what the EU is planning to do in its international trade diplomacy in this area.
EU UK TCA: European Parliament wants more scrutiny powers and more time European Parliament committees scrutinised the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement this week. The series of meetings culminated in a joint meeting of the foreign affairs and international trade committee on Thursday. This kick-starts a formalised consent procedure involving …
This was the last major ‘trade continuity’ deal for the Department of International trade to conclude as the end of the United Kingdom’s transition period with the European Union loomed. Ankara was waiting for the EU and UK to conclude their future relationship deal to put its signature under a …
This is an initial run through some of the ‘non-goods’ trade aspects of the EU UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement inked on Christmas Eve and released for the world to read on Boxing Day. The main elements of goods trade were covered by Chris Horseman on Sunday. Plain English The …
The race against time in getting an EU-UK trade pact in place is not quite over despite the fact that negotiators managed to put the final touches on what is now officially called the EU-UK ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ to shape post-Brexit relationships going forward.
