Perhaps this is the week when the European Parliament will really get down to work on international trade policy, and it’s the week after the summer break where trade disputes and trade negotiations really start trailing off. INTA committee The international trade committee is meeting today and tomorrow. Today’s session …
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Week Ahead in EU trade: GSP, steel
Good morning. Brussels continues to have this ‘interregnum’ feel about it as it prepares for leadership change at the top. Legislative work is slow. A newly elected European Parliament is only gradually getting organised to work on trade. The primary focus is on politics: the parliament is preparing hearings with …
Week Ahead: Commission, Airbus-Boeing, IPI, Brexit saga
The wheels of the Brussels machinery are gradually starting to churn again. So here a few useful items to watch out for this week. On Tuesday, European Commission-elect Ursula von der Leyen will announce who she wants to serve on which vacant new commissioner post. Mainstream expectations continue to be …
Week in Brussels: Ideas market bids for Commission attention
The ritual early September rentrée week in Brussels was all about who will get which jobs in the incoming European Commission. There is a sense that the European Union is at a historically critical juncture. Preoccupations centre on transatlantic relations, China, US-China, Brexit and populism. This is set to have …
EU capitals and parliament eye Mercosur, China, Vietnam, US and Brexit as trade priorities
The incoming European Commission plans to put the fight against climate change front and centre in its next five-year tenure. But signs are the EU’s executive arm will be squeezed in between capitals – many of which might want to go slow on controversial files such as a carbon border …
Week in Brussels: Duties on fasteners from Malaysia 2.0, elephant trade, G7
It’s been a fairly quiet week in Brussels as befits any last week of August in Europe. But quiet weeks are good moments for ‘interesting’ moves by the European Commission’s antidumping directorate. This week we saw among others an extension of bike antidumping duties from China on grounds that look …
Week Ahead: G7 fallout
G-summits, be they in their 7, 8 or 20 format, have always rung hollow. But the meeting of heads of state or government of the world’s richest countries held over the weekend in Biarritz, southern France, surpasses many in the scale of its emptiness.
Week and month ahead: Slow motion in the policy world
The agendas of most institutions relevant to our readers are empty or almost empty, be they related to ‘comitology’ meetings at the Council in Brussels, the European and national parliaments, the WTO, or the European Commission.
Week in Brussels: trade defence, Polish perspective on Mercosur
We may be deep into a hot summer but it’s not entirely quiet yet on the European Union trade front. In fact it looks like the European Commission is busy wrapping up what it can before August.
Week ahead in EU trade: EU-US, INTA, CETA in France, WTO meetings
This week, new people in charge of trade in the European Union will set the ball rolling on their fresh jobs.
