News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Monday, May 5, 2025
The European Commission plans to roll out anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tools to tackle a whole range of new global challenges, not least in the digital sphere. Arnoud Willems discusses trends, challenges and accountability issues in EU trade defence policy with Borderlex’s Iana Dreyer.
This week the focus has been on the soon-to-be-launched EU-UK trade negotiations and the real start to British post-Brexit trade policy. Our *four articles* (!) this week here. But London is not quite the centre of the world. Here other developments this week in EU trade. Hogan flies to Washington …
The European Union’s largest business umbrella group released its position paper on the coming negotiations with the United Kingdom on their future economic relationship this week. The move comes only days after the European Commission released a draft mandate for member states to sign off ahead of formal negotiations due …
Trade sniping out of Washington just doesn’t seem to be ending. Bloomberg reported yesterday that the White House was mulling pulling out of the Government Procurement Agreement, a preferential accord among a subset of mostly rich-country members of the World Trade Organization. China and Russia are in the process of …
The European Commission released the draft negotiating mandate it is seeking from EU member states today for talks with the United Kindom. The move was an opening shot to a high-stakes and high-risk negotiation towards a new relationship with Great Britain, which left the EU last Friday. The actual negotiating …
Good morning Brexit Europe. Brexit begins for real Britain has been out of the EU for two days now. The countdown to the end of the ‘transition period’ by year-end is on. Negotiations on a new relationship – to start in exactly one month – promise to be tumultuous. Today …
It’s been a week full of hoo haa around EU US agriculture trade. The EU put a bit of antidumping into its digital strategy. The European Parliament ratified the EU-UK withdrawal agreement on Wednesday and offered a moving good-bye ceremony to Britons. In London, Union Jack flags are being waved …
The European Commission’s long-anticipated policy proposals aimed at enhancing Europe’s new-generation internet’s security will rely on a series of traditional ‘trade policy’ instruments. The EU’s executive body wants these to be rolled out within three months across all member states. Brussels has come up with a unique approach in dealing …
It’s been a pretty packed week. Here other low-key but important developments in EU trade policy. EU Mexico FTA stirrings The EU and Mexico had concluded negotiations towards the modernisation of a twenty year old free trade agreement in April 2018. But that agreement ‘in principle’ left the parties with …
It started with a bilateral entente between the EU and Canada, joined by Norway shortly thereafter. Now the number of countries that want to maintain an appeal mechanism in World Trade Organization’s prized dispute settlement system is starting to rise significantly as the reality sinks in that the Appellate Body …
