News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, May 2, 2025
The European Parliament is bracing for a battle over the date of coming into force of the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism and related phase-out of domestic free emissions trading allowances. Other issues MEPs will fight over in the CBAM file are the final use of the money the EU …
Happy Monday morning dear readers! MC12 – the work continues – but how? It’s as if there was a curse hanging over the 12th ministerial conference of the WTO, due to be held this week in Geneva, but postponed at the last minute last Friday. The conference was postponed twice …
Due to travel restrictions enacted by Switzerland and rising international concern over a new COVID-19 variant, the WTO has decided that the ministerial conference planned next week (starting on 30 November 2021) would not be held as planned. Further announcements are yet to be made.
Turkmenistan applies to join the WTO There are only a few more holdouts out there in the world which are not members of the world trade institution. Until recently the Central Asian country Turkmenistan was one of them. After its neighbour Uzbekistan made moves to accelerate its accession process to …
It’s been a week focusing on the 12th ministerial conference of the WTO in Geneva, which will start in a few days. The European Parliament voted on its resolution on the file and the Commission reaching out to media to put out its view on what it wants from the …
Germany, the European Union’s economic powerhouse and most populous country, will soon have a new government. This opens a new political chapter after sixteen years of a centre-right-led coalition headed by the towering figure of Angela Merkel. One can expect a lot of continuity on how Germany approaches EU trade …
Direct investments into the EU from China are on the retreat and the trend could persist, finds the European Commission in its first official report on foreign direct investment and member state screening activities. The report is part of an annual exercise foreseen under a new EU-level screening regulation. The …
The European Union, the United States and Japan have agreed to resume dormant talks aimed at agreeing on joint principles related to industrial subsidisation, which they would like the World Trade Organization to endorse in a potential future reform process.
Almost ten years after rules on salmonella in poultry meat were amended in the European Union, Brazil is filing for consultations at the dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva over what it sees as discriminatory treatment of its processed poultry meat.
The international trade committee of the European Parliament has begun work on the European Commission’s regulatory proposal on “foreign subsidies distorting the internal market”. Its members are eyeing tighter conditions than originally laid out by the EU executive for triggering investigations.
