News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Brussels and Washington might not have completely settled their long-standing dispute over subsidies to their respective civil aircraft giants Boeing and Airbus today. But there is one area where agreement is strong: the view that China’s state-backed plane producer COMAC and similar outfits need to be kept from snatching global …
The European Union and the United States are still putting the finishing touches to their joint communiqué at the time of writing after an intense and productive bilateral summit which aimed to reset the relationship on many fronts after four years of turbulent relationships under the Trump administration. In terms …
The European Union and Canada held an overnight summit, which concluded with agreement to cooperate in a wide range of areas including health, climate change, trade and international security.
Whereas the meeting will no doubt be positive, expectations of what the next EU-US summit can actually achieve or even ‘boost’ on the transatlantic trade and tech agendas need some managing.
The European Union and the United States are preparing to host their first bilateral summit in years, with president Biden coming in person to Brussels mid-June to seek to boost the transatlantic relationship. The political noises around a variety of ‘trade’ and ‘trade-and-tech’ files that will make it to the …
The European Union has agreed not to proceed with a second tranche of retaliatory import duties on United States imports on 1st of June as originally planned in order to leave room for further negotiations with the United States. The duty enactment could be deferred for up to six months.
There are timid signs of a gradual Washington ‘awakening’ to trade files that the European Union would want to settle with Washington to move on on trade.
The countdown for a second round of European retaliatory tariffs in response to United Sates tariffs on steel and aluminium from the European Union and the ex-EU member United Kingdom is now clearly on.
The European Union and Canada have started negotiating a mutual recognition agreement on the professional qualifications of architects. The proposed deal is part of CETA, the EU-Canada trade accord that has been in force provisionally since 2017.
This has been an intense week in European Union trade policy, with the continuous transatlantic file rolling on, a lot of action in Geneva, the EU and the ACP group finally concluding their post-Cotonou agreement and the European Parliament active on a variety of trade files. MEPs voted to resume …
