Is this the European Union’s approach to ‘digital partnerships’ in the Indo-Pacific just fluff? At the very least one can say it is much too timid.
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Analysis – The EU-US Trade and Tech Council as the new ‘friend-shoring’ vehicle
The EU US Trade and Technology Council has somewhat fallen off global headlines amid the war in Ukraine and the related fallout for the global economy, global supply chains and global politics. But despite its structural weaknesses as a forum to deepen economic ties across the Atlantic, it is defying …
Foreign subsidies regulation : trilogue negotiations begin
The European Union’s member states, the European Commission and the European Parliament will start inter-institutional trilogue negotiations on the EU’s new foreign subsidies regulation as soon as this week. Despite some differences in their approach capitals and member states are set to converge on a piece of legislation that might …
WTO panel lenient on EU steel safeguard
Part Two of the recent Turkey-EU trade dispute settlement saga around pharmaceuticals and steel is ending today with a panel report that goes easy on Brussels in its handling of its 2018 steel safeguard measure. Even if the panel did not give the EU a clean slate in the way …
WTO: Turkey to appeal EU pharma case win in ad hoc arbitration mechanism
The MPIA will once again have to wait. But Turkey and the EU are setting a precedent by using an alternative World Trade Organization appeals mechanism to settle their legal scores as the appellate body continues to lie dormant.
Foreign subsidies: EP trade committee sharpens focus on Chinese-style companies
The European Parliament’s international trade committee has adopted by unanimity its report on the European Union’s coming foreign subsidies regulation. The new piece of legislation aims at subjecting foreign investors to the same type of subsidy control system as EU firms operating in its single market’s state-aide regime. The move …
ECT negotiations : members eye June deal announcement
Observers of the ongoing Energy Charter Treaty modernisation negotiations tend to concur: the process is dominated by the European Union and its desire to have an overhauled treaty by mid 2022. After twelve rounds of negotiations among the more than fifty members of the ECT, the contours of a potential …
Anti-coercion : Lange report seeks to give even more ammunition to EU
The European Parliament is on a path to making the EU’s planned anti-coercion instrument even tougher than envisaged by the European Commission – and putting it most likely at loggerheads with the Council.
Comment – Le Pen, Macron, and the EU’s trade policy
The current French presidential contest is tight and tense. The outcome of the run-off vote in ten days that will oppose incumbent Emmanuel Macron and the national-populist Marine Le Pen will determine whether the European Union as we know it has a future. Speaking of trade policy in this context …
Blog: A few considerations on the latest round of EU sanctions against Russia
After the fifth round European Union of sanctions against Russia enacted on Friday (8 April), one can almost say the EU, in sync with its allies, is enacting a blockade against the country whose government has invaded Ukraine and committed atrocious war crimes there. Russia itself has responded in recent …
