News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Below an overview of key items to watch this week in European trade policy. South East Asia This week the European Parliament will vote on the EU Singapore Free Trade Agreement, Investment Protection Agreement, and Partnership and Cooperation Agreement. The debates on these agreements are scheduled on Tuesday, the votes …
Welcome to deep winter. It’s February 2019. It’s icy cold in many parts of Europe. The big-ticket European trade policy items this week and month will be those over which cold geopolitical winds are blowing: Brexit, transatlantic trade, and China. No love lost across Channel and Atlantic A chaotic No …
There will be three main items to watch this week in EU trade: a European Court of Justice preliminary assessment of the EU’s Investment Court System, the direction of travel for Brexit, and WTO disputes. The fate of the European Union’s plans to set up bilateral an multilateral investment tribunals …
A dense week lies ahead. Among the many meetings to watch let’s point out the following: the World Trade Organization mini-ministerial in Davos, a critical trade committee meeting in the European Parliament, and ministerial meetings with ASEAN and African Union leaders today in Brussels. Saving the WTO in the Swiss …
This week won’t be too exciting in European Union trade, with no big-ticket items on the formal agenda for trade policy wonks to get excited about. Except for those who care about Brexit and its impact on trade with a departing EU member state that is worth about 16% of …
The overarching question shaping European trade policy outcomes this year will be: what role for international trade and investment law for global business and the work of trade diplomats? This issue will be central in the four major files with which European trade policy will grapple: the future of the …
The first full working week of the new year will see the EU focus on World Trade Organization issues. Trilateral US Japan EU Trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström will be in Washington tomorrow to meet her US and Japanese counterparts and discuss topics of joint interest in relation to WTO rules …
Formally it’s a quiet week for European trade policy, with a limited number of scheduled official meetings. But one can expect movement on a variety of trade files before everyone goes on holiday for Christmas.
Happy Monday dear readers. This is going to be a week of reckoning for some pressing European trade policy files. Will we get a Japan deal? Will the House of Commons accept the UK’s Withdrawal Agreement with the EU? What happens next in the WTO saga? (And, what about ‘la …
G20 fallout December 2018 will be remembered as a decisive moment in European trade policy. Leaders came back to Europe from the G20 in Argentina over the week-end without securing a commitment by the big leaders to fight protectionism – although WTO reform is on the agenda of the world’s …
