Is this the European Union’s approach to ‘digital partnerships’ in the Indo-Pacific just fluff? At the very least one can say it is much too timid.
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Analysis – The EU-US Trade and Tech Council as the new ‘friend-shoring’ vehicle
The EU US Trade and Technology Council has somewhat fallen off global headlines amid the war in Ukraine and the related fallout for the global economy, global supply chains and global politics. But despite its structural weaknesses as a forum to deepen economic ties across the Atlantic, it is defying …
Comment – Le Pen, Macron, and the EU’s trade policy
The current French presidential contest is tight and tense. The outcome of the run-off vote in ten days that will oppose incumbent Emmanuel Macron and the national-populist Marine Le Pen will determine whether the European Union as we know it has a future. Speaking of trade policy in this context …
Interview: United States and Europe can do a lot together in the Indo-Pacific
The United States will soon announce plans for an Indo-Pacific economic framework as part of its new strategy for the region. Europeans have also developed their own Indo-Pacific strategies. There is scope for transatlantic cooperation on trade and economic issues of common interest. Asia Society’s Wendy Cutler shares some thoughts …
COMMENT – Ostrich policy : the EU’s anti-coercion instrument risks becoming a damp squib
The anti-coercion instrument that the European Commission is proposing for adoption this year coinciding with a crisis with China over its economic bullying of Lithuania is not only a risky institutional power transfer – it might end up being a damp squib.
Week in Brussels: Russia WTO dispute now on, steel safeguard revision, aluminium
Borderlex will be in recess as of tomorrow (22 December) for about a fortnight due to the festive season. So we are fast-forwarding our usual Friday Week in Brussels column for you…
Week Ahead: Spanish olives, Liz Truss takes over EU portfolio, China-Lithuania, Christmas
Welcome to the last working week of the year 2021. Moment of truth on the Appellate Body for the Biden administration Today (Monday 20 December) the Dispute Settlement Body in the World Trade Organization will meet for the last time of the year. Two new panels are set to be …
Week Ahead: MC12 blues, WTO disputes, INTA on international procurement
Happy Monday morning dear readers! MC12 – the work continues – but how? It’s as if there was a curse hanging over the 12th ministerial conference of the WTO, due to be held this week in Geneva, but postponed at the last minute last Friday. The conference was postponed twice …
Week in Brussels: WTO focus, 1st civil society meeting on EU UK TCA
It’s been a week focusing on the 12th ministerial conference of the WTO in Geneva, which will start in a few days. The European Parliament voted on its resolution on the file and the Commission reaching out to media to put out its view on what it wants from the …
Sabine Weyand: We will need to re-engage China
Borderlex’s founder and editor Iana Dreyer spoke to the European Commission’s director-general for trade Sabine Weyand. The conversation covered the current state of transatlantic trade relations, the Brussels’ trade conversation with China and prospects for the World Trade Organization as its 12th ministerial conference approaches.
