News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
This is an initial run through some of the ‘non-goods’ trade aspects of the EU UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement inked on Christmas Eve and released for the world to read on Boxing Day. The main elements of goods trade were covered by Chris Horseman on Sunday. Plain English The …
The race against time in getting an EU-UK trade pact in place is not quite over despite the fact that negotiators managed to put the final touches on what is now officially called the EU-UK ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ to shape post-Brexit relationships going forward.
This opinion piece reacts to and debates four key criticisms expressed in various media outlets in recent days of the EU-China investment agreement currently seen as in the final stages of negotiations.
It is quite a momentous week for trade in general and trade policy in the European Union in particular, with the future partnership agreement with the United Kingdom in the final stages of negotiation and indications that perhaps there might be ‘white smoke’ on a hitherto elusive EU China investment …
Fisheries is clearly the very last sticking point in the negotiations towards a post-Brexit agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom, chief negotiator Michel Barnier told the European Parliament on Friday (18 December) morning.
The European Union and China are stepping up efforts to seal a deal on a comprehensive investment agreement by year-end as mandated by their respective heads of state over the last months.
Goods trade data collected by the European Union’s statistical agency reveal dramatic declines in 2020 so far as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In January to October 2020, extra-EU exports of goods fell to €1 579.4 bn, Eurostat finds. That is “a decrease of 11.3% compared with January-October 2019″. …
Updated at 18.15 CET/17.15 GMT. With only 17 days to go until the United Kingdom formally leaves the European Union’s single market, the issue of how the ratification process will proceed in the EU while respecting the treaties and the rights of the European and national parliaments has come into …
This has been Brexit week on both sides of the Channel. The dinner between Ursula von der Leyen and Boris Johnson on Wednesday night did not bring us closer to a breakthrough on the most thorny issue of ‘the level playing field’.
Faced with the prospect of a trade agreement with four South American countries that has taken more than twenty years to negotiate being voted down amidst wide-spread public opinion fear it might set ablaze the Amazon forest, the European Commission has taken the initiative. And it wants to move fast …
