News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
It’s been en eventful week, with the Appellate Body disappearing and the English (and Welsh) voting to “get Brexit done”. Here are other bits of news of potential interest for EU trade. Council Conclusions: green trade ok but at low cost and with level playing field Heads of government are …
This week will be a critical week for the future of the World Trade Organization, the European Union and the United Kingdom (in all this). WTO crisis in focus WTO Ambassadors are meeting for the General Council in Geneva. The gathering comes at a moment of deep crisis in the …
It’s been an eventful week on trade – with a deepening WTO crisis, some movement on agriculture, continued uncertainty over the EU Vietnam FTA ratification…. New low in WTO and transatlantic trade relations This week has provided fodder for around-the-clock quotation-chasing media as developments shifted by the day, if not …
This week is when the new European Commission team led by Ursula von der Leyen takes over the reins in the Berlaymont. US is watching The United States greeted its arrival with a message by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “The United States looks forward to working with this new …
Trade policy will be an instrument of choice for the new European Commission’s ambitious foreign and climate policy. But the von der Leyen programme also reveals many blind spots – not least on how to succeed in overhauling the World Treade Organization and in the EU’s immediate neighbourhood, opines Iana …
Appellate Body WTO crunch time Well, this week the WTO system will be reeling from the next excuse the United States brought to postpone yet again its agreement to launch the appointment process of new Appellate Body members: remuneration. At the latest AB meeting on Friday, the US said that …
All good things happen on a Friday afternoon when everyone wants to head off into the week-end: the EU just released its offer to the United States towards the conformity assessment agreement they are currently negotiating. If you were wondering what to read over the week-end, here it is! High …
This week, another EU free trade agreement will come into force: the one with Singapore. The trade pact is also flanked by a separate investment protection agreement. The FTA will liberalise trade in goods but also in particular services. EU firms will benefit from greater market openings in financial services, …
So here our Friday column on the smaller but yet notable stories in European Union trade this week. It’s been a packed week. It’s also been an odd week with everyone left in limbo over potential US auto tariffs. The Woman thing and podcasts With Thierry Breton now likely confirmed …
This will be less a week of action on trade in the EU than a week of deadlines. Watch out for a possible first ever decision in the EU to recommend suspending Everything-But-Arms trade preferences following months of wrangling with Cambodia’s ruler Hun Sen. US auto tariff deadline The main …
