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News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Tonight’s vote in the British parliament marks a milestone. The United Kingdom now seems on track to leave the European Union with an agreement. The risk of a ‘no deal’ Brexit on Halloween remains. But doesn’t look too likely. With a first positive vote on an Article 50 agreement on …
Airbus, transatlantic This week in European Union trade politics will be dominated yet again by ‘Airbus tariffs’ and the general state of transatlantic trade relations. Today, the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization is set to authorise retaliation by the United States after it won its case against …
The United Kingdom’s new Brexit and related post-Brexit trade strategy has radicalised since Boris Johnson took over the country’s premiership this summer. The goal is to be outside the European Union on 1 November at any cost – including by superseding parliament — and to accelerate trade negotiations with Britain’s …
Dear readers, this is the last Week in Brussels column before our summer recess. The next Week in Brussels column will appear on 30 August 2019. We will publish very sparingly over the next two weeks due to the general recess period in relevant European and international trade institutions. Here …
The United States Trade Representative office released an updated report of a hearing in the US Senate held last June. The report offers little that is new on the US’s view on transatlantic trade relations, however the write-up does includes up-to-date views of the US administration on recent plans in …
The week started with a gloomy assessment of the transatlantic tariff threat picture by the trade commissioner and ended with threats of new US tariffs on France, and potentially Britain, following moves in Paris and London to giant digital company profits.
This week has mainly been about the EU-Vietnam trade agreement and the final stretches over the 20-year-old EU Mercosur trade negotiations.
This week we saw developments on the EU China market economy case, Mercosur, the UK GSP scheme, fishing and Korea. What else happened?
United States president Donald Trump’s official state visit to the United Kingdom has made headlines this week for all sorts of reasons – but it has, among other things, thrown a sharpened spotlight on the possibility of a UK-US free trade agreement after the Britain leaves the EU. The negotiations …
G20 trade minister’s meeting amidst escalating ‘trade wars’ G20 trade ministers will converge on Japan for a ministerial meeting on trade and the digital economy this week-end – an event hosted in Tsukuba. The aim is to prepare the ground to the big G20 summit later this month. This week’s …
