News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to head WTO The World Trade Organization’s General Council is meeting today (Monday 15 February) to take a final decision on the nomination of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the next director-general of the organisation. The former World Bank executive was the consensus choice among WTO members in a …
The Chilean government wants to finalise a series of trade agreement negotiations it has in the pipeline in the coming five to six months as it prepares for the end of the Sebastián Piñera presidency in 2021. Among the dozen deals for Santiago to seal, there is an upgrade to …
Now that the European Union has inked an investment agreement with China it needs to take a big-picture geopolitical approach to the rest of the Asian region and a forward-looking approach to transatlantic relations, argues Reinhard Bütikofer in an interview with Borderlex.
This has been a very odd week, strangely busy with little actually happening in terms of decisions. The EU is preparing the ground for many further developments. Some more on this below.
It’s turning out to be a busy week at the WTO. WTO community worried by EU vaccine export restrictions It’s as if the WTO secretariat were trolling the European Union. The four deputy directors-general currently running the institution issued a statement on Monday, calling for international cooperation in vaccine production. …
EU Japan EPA and CETA updates.
This article was updated on 30 January. The European Commission released a regulation submitting exports of vaccines covered by the European Union’s advanced purchase programme to an export license. The move comes days after Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced a ‘transparency’ mechanism for such exports as a row …
This has been a week of intense debate on international trade and the regulation of the digital economy .
Africa, Latin America, India, procurement: what the EU is planning to do in its international trade diplomacy in this area.
The European Commission is rolling out a new sustainable farming strategy as part of its Green Deal. That policy, like many other EU policies before, is set to spill over into the EU’s trade policy.
