News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Thursday, May 1, 2025
The international trade committee of the European Parliament adopted its position on the coming anti-coercion instrument in preparation for future negotiations with member states as it prepares for a likely showdown with EU capitals over the European Commission’s powers in this file.
Colombia appealed a report by panellists in a legal dispute brought by the EU on anti-dumping duties on frozen fries.
The EU and Japan announced they will start negotiations towards data flow provisions in a revamped digital chapter in their bilateral free trade agreement.
The European Commission is preparing the paperwork to allow the EU to sign off on an agreement in principle on a renegotiated Energy Charter Treaty next month. Among these documents is an internal understanding among member states that investor-state arbitration based on the ECT among EU countries is no longer …
A reality check on the World Trade Organization after a week spent in and around Geneva. Warning: it’s a long read.
The European Services Forum’s managing director Pascal Kerneis discussed EU-Singapore trade relations with Iana Dreyer’s Borderlex. So what is at stake with the coming revision of their 2019 free trade agreement and with the planned Digital Partnership Agreement?
“The world is in a difficult place,” said Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Speaking at the opening session of the annual World Trade Organization public forum in Geneva, the institution’s director-general called on policy-makers “to think of policies to restore growth”.
WTO dispute settlement system reform discussions are getting off to a timid start. This comes as decisive alternative appeals arbitration panels are gradually coming on stream in Geneva.
Big Geopolitics, a war next door, soaring inflation, an energy crisis, a burning climate crisis, an economic downturn, possibly a recession. It is the autumn 2022 rentrée and there are about eighteen months left to get a range of pathbreaking pieces of legislation and trade agreements to the finishing line …
It’s still very quiet in Brussels but trade policy has started stirring ahead of a packed rentrée next week.
