News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Thursday, May 1, 2025
The Pacific Islands Economic Partnership Agreement is now in the hands of French MEP André Rougé, a member of France’s far right Rassemblement National and the European Parliament’s Identity and Democracy group that includes far right parties from eight other European countries. A file that would have sailed quietly through …
Welcome back to our Monday morning Week Ahead columns! In these gloomy and rainy early days of November in Brussels we are looking to a packed agenda that could distract us from the bad weather. Shanghai WTO mini ministerial Commission and member state officials will be in Shanghai on Tuesday …
It’s a short week in most of the EU with many countries on holidays on Allsaints day on 1 November. This explains why our Week in Brussels column is coming out on Thursday instead of Friday. This week we had news on the end of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties and …
November deadlines missed Europeans and Britons were spared Brexit for Halloween this Friday as the United Kingdom seeks a way out of its political impasse through elections later this year. There are also signs that the United States will seek a way to avoid slapping tariffs on EU autos in …
The week so far has been about much more than the new Brexit deal… Singapore FTA on track for member state approval EU Ambassadors gave cleared the way for capitals to approve the EU Singapore free trade agreement on Wednesday (23 October 2019). The ratification process for this agreement is …
It’s been a horrible week for trade aficionados. The US said no to proposed WTO Appellate Body reforms, US tariffs on EU exports are kicking in, and one had to follow the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement negotiations. The final Brexit deal implies customs contortions in Northern Ireland which many policy wonks …
Airbus, transatlantic This week in European Union trade politics will be dominated yet again by ‘Airbus tariffs’ and the general state of transatlantic trade relations. Today, the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization is set to authorise retaliation by the United States after it won its case against …
Yes, we all know, this was transatlantic week and Airbus week. It was also Phil Hogan week. It was also international trade committee week – with MEPs discussing the US-EU beef quota and the ongoing EU-Australia negotiations. Below other interesting news. Parliament gears up for EU Vietnam FTA and IPA ratification …
This is set to be an intense week in EU trade policy. The Airbus tariff war, DSB meeting The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body is meeting today in Geneva. On the agenda: the Airbus case and authorisation by the WTO for the United States to imposed duties on EU …
This week, EU leaders were out in New York for a UN General Assembly meeting dominated by ‘Greta’, i.e. the climate change issue. The gathering in the Great Apple was also a good opportunity to meet other leaders from across the world. Cecilia Malmströmmet among others with counterparts from Brazil …
