Five years after the Maidan revolution, the ‘deep and comprehensive’ free trade agreement between the European Union and Ukraine is turning out to be an important vehicle in the Eastern European country’s gradual economic decoupling from Russia. It is also buttressing the country’s slow but steady reform path.
EU FTAs & bilateral ties
Week Ahead: Trade committee, Ukraine, IPI
While the EU awaits the verdict of the WTO arbitrator sometime this month that will set the levels of duties the United States may levy on imports from Europe, its trade policy machinery continues churning on.
Blog: Mercosur agreement – the victory of expediency over thoroughness
The Mercosur agreement is not the most interesting or ambitious trade deal the EU has ever signed. It reflects our times and the EU’s wish to show the world and the United States it is defending its interests, comments Iana Dreyer.
Week ahead in EU trade: G20 fallout, parliament leadership race, EU Australia
It hasn’t been much of a weekend for European leaders. Nor for journalists. We’ve had: a handshake deal on the EU Mercosur free trade negotiations on Friday night with few details on its exact content, the signing of the EU Vietnam free trade agreement in Hanoi on Sunday (30 June), …
Flash: EU and Mercosur seal historic trade agreement
Details of the agreement are yet to be published, but there is white smoke: the EU and Mercosur agreed on a historic trade agreement – the largest region to region agreement ever concluded. The two regional blocs had been seeking a trade agreement for over twenty years. See the official …
Week in Brussels: Finnish presidency priorities, INTA committee contours, investment facilitation
This week has mainly been about the EU-Vietnam trade agreement and the final stretches over the 20-year-old EU Mercosur trade negotiations.
EU and Mercosur dare hope for trade deal breakthrough in coming days
The European Union appears determined to make a major point about trade policy at the G20 summit in Osaka, which opened today (27 June) in Japan. Negotiations to conclude a trade pact with the South American bloc Mercosur are continuing after marathon meetings with ministers today. The signs are a …
EU member states give green light to Vietnam trade and investment pacts
It took three and a half years since the negotiations were first finalised, but here we are: the EU’s member states has given the green light to the EU Vietnam free trade agreement and investment protection agreement. This paves the way for official signature and the ratification process in the …
UPDATE – Week Ahead in EU trade: Vietnam and Mercosur crunch week, DSB
This article was updated on 24 June at 17.35 CET. New information includes detailed dates for the EU Vietnam agreements and an update/erratum on the Spanish olives dispute settlement case. This week we might see breakthroughs in the Vietnam and Mercosur trade agreements. We will certainly see more EU US …
EU requests arbitration panel under EU Ukraine Association Agreement
The EU is escalating its dispute with Ukraine over the country’s continued ban on exports of timber, and requested a panel this week after initial consultations collapsed. This is the first bilateral arbitration panel to be established under an EU trade agreement.
