News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
The European Parliament’s political group leaders have met today to decide what to do next about the ratification of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. These are the next steps: the foreign affairs committee and the international trade committee will vote on the deal on Thursday (15 April 2021). The …
The Energy Charter Treaty needs to make a success of its ongoing modernisation process in the coming five years, writes Urban Rusnák.
It’s been a slow start after Easter, but the trade policy machinery in Brussels is gradually getting back into gear. Turkey Only a few weeks into calmer waters a new storm broke out in the EU-Turkey relationship. While the news is about about protocol matters and Sofa Gate, one of …
Ever since preliminary talks with Turkey on ‘modernising’ its customs union with the European Union were initiated seven years ago, the issue has disappeared and resurfaced with the ebb and flow of a turbulent bilateral EU-Turkey relationship. The project was recently revived – so what’s at stake?
As everyone in Europe prepares for a second semi-locked down COVID-19 Easter, one must say it hasn’t been the most glorious of trade weeks for the European Union – except for a specific CETA performance.
To divert a phrase by former US Ambassador to the EU Anthony Garner: last week-end the United States Trade Representative defused some hand grenades, but kept some ticking.
Trade policy will quiet down this week as the Easter week-end beckons in Europe. Borderlex itself will go fully quiet on Friday (2 April) and come back on Tuesday (6 April).
It’s been one of those mega-weeks in trade again, culminating perhaps with Joe Biden beaming into the European Council last night to say hello. Nothing concrete came out of this meeting. Official statements indicate this was mostly about bonding and setting lofty common goals such as working together on COVID-19 …
European Union member states, who came together at a summit today, have given the green light to the resumption of a stalled trade conversation with Turkey. The move follows on a recent de-escalation of political tensions with Ankara over the East Mediterranean and a recommendation by the European Commission to …
The US and EU are talking again on critical trade files, but dialogue is picking up in a piecemeal way.
