News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, April 25, 2025
The European Commission has expressed concern over the United States’ Department of Commerce decision to restrict exports of advanced artificial intelligence technology and related semiconductors. A concrete response from Brussels will need to wait, if it materialises at all.
The European Union doesn’t have the right institutions to deal with the crises it has been facing ever since the 2008 financial crisis. Whether it can withstand the next big storm coming with Donald Trump’s second term in the Oval Office remains to be seen. Consistent rule-enforcement and intelligent deal …
Stakeholders in international trade policy in Europe interested in an open economy need to face up to a few harsh truths. The first truth is that there will be no pro-active, free-market, let alone an effective trade policy in the coming months, if not years. Trade policy will remain reactive, …
The European Union finds itself between a rock and a hard place after the United States announced it was significantly raising existing Section 301 tariffs imposed in the Trump era on imports of electric vehicles, lithium batteries, solar cells, semiconductors and medical equipment to sweeping levels on Tuesday. Brussels fears …
Bernd Lange served as chair of the European Parliament’s international trade committee for two terms. In an in-depth conversation with Iana Dreyer, he discussed what changes to EU trade policy occurred under his tenure in this pivotal position, where he sees future relationships with the United States and China – …
The fifth EU US Trade and Technology Council meeting held on Tuesday in the United States has turned out as planned: as a staging post for another meeting to be held in April in Brussels. But not only.
Trump, the Transatlantic Trade and Technology Council, energy security… and MSMEs. Here some highlights of what think tanks have written about in recent days.
Happy New Year dear readers! Brussels has been very quiet this week, but activity is bound to pick up on Monday (8 January). Whoever from Brussels is still on on holiday will return to some uneasy realities that will need to be handled in the coming months as the EU …
The EU is preparing to extend its side of the bargain in a tariff truce agreed with Washington in October 2021 to leave room for negotiating a long-term settlement over steel and aluminium duties initially enacted by the Trump administration on national security grounds in 2018.
The European Commission released the draft negotiating mandate it is seeking from EU member states to formally start negotiations with the United States on a critical minerals trade agreement.
