The world trading system and climate policies need EGA to succeed. Why waste another year to conclude the environmental goods pact in the WTO? Front-row EGA observer Peter Brun on what happened and what comes next for the supposedly easy pact that stumbled last December 2016. More than a month …
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Comment: EU trade policy must use the trade deal pause in 2017 to sort itself out
With TTIP off the table for now, 2017 will be a good year for the EU common commercial policy to sort itself out, Iana Dreyer muses. There is no doubt : the EU’s trade policy has taken quite a few beatings lately. The blows have come from outside and from …
Comment – EU trade politics: the ‘Bremain’ purgatory – the Brexit hell
Britain is voting on whether to leave or stay in the EU. A decision by the UK to remain is likely to prolong the current state of generalised gridlock in EU trade politics. Yet at least we will have ‘the mess we know’: a state akin to being in a purgatory. Brexit …
Comment: Brexit & United Kingdom trade policy
Thursday will be a fateful day for Britain and the EU writ large as the country heads for a referendum on whether to remain in or leave the bloc. What could become of Britain’s trade relations with the EU and the rest of world after June 23rd? Rarely has Britain …
COMMENT: Towards a coherent system of global energy trade and investment rules
It is time to reassess the relationship between the WTO and Energy Charter Treaty, writes Anna Marhold.
COMMENT: TTIP – averting a train wreck
TTIP talks are in deep trouble. The best US and EU leaders can achieve this year is averting an outright train wreck. A comment by Iana Dreyer. Photo credit: German government/Bergman
Comment – France and EU trade policy: no longer the ‘non’ sayer
France is developing a trade policy strategy. It is no longer your good old EU naysayer on trade. By Iana Dreyer.
COMMENT: EU trade policy outlook 2016
How could 2016 shape up in EU trade policy? It looks like the year will be less marked by the conclusion of significant trade agreements such as TTIP, but more by the domestic politics of China’s ‘market economy status’ and of trade agreement ratifications such as the Canada EU CETA. A …
COMMENT – After TPP: don’t expect a US ‘pivot’ to TTIP so soon
European hopes that the conclusion of the Transpacific Partnership might lead Washington to dedicate more attention to TTIP will soon be dashed. If Europeans want the United States to give priority to TTIP, Brussels and the member states will need to overcome their self-referential politics on the transatlantic deal and make themselves more attractive as partners. Iana …
COMMENT: All moral now? The EU seal product ban – Updated on 15/09
The European Parliament has enacted legislation to put a 2009 seal product sale ban in compliance with World Trade Organization rules. Those rules in fact force the EU to be even more ‘moral’ than it intended to. In practice, the seal product ban raises new moral questions: but that’s beyond the remit of …
