News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, May 2, 2025
It’s been an eventful week, with the EU coming up with new initiatives vis-a-vis China, the European Parliament voting down the EU’s United States trade strategy, a beef deal with Washington, and negotiations going on with Indonesia and Mercosur to try and achieve a free trade agreement with them. In …
The European Parliament voted on a legally non-binding resolution on the launch of new negotiations with the United States on tariff liberalisation and conformity assessment. MEPs adopted amendments tabled by the groups EFDD, ENF, Greens and S&D calling not to endorse the negotiation mandates. This in turn killed off the …
In November 2016, European Union and United States negotiators decided to put negotiations towards a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on ice. As new negotiations were initiated last year, observers – and critics – say the way Washington and the EU are going about the new talks is just a …
Ahead of the European Council next week and an EU-China summit in early April, the European Commission formally tabled a series of actions that make policy vis-à-vis Beijing “more realistic, assertive and multi-faceted”. The new commission communication entitled EU China – A Strategic Outlook says that “there is a growing …
It’s been a week heavy on Brexit-related trade news and transatlantic. Over at the WTO e-commerce negotiations officially started on Wednesday (separate article in a couple of hours). Doing something useful for yourself for and women in trade It’s international women’s day today. So this is a good moment to …
The European Parliament will vote next Thursday on a motion for a resolution on EU-US trade negotiations that will offer the political background music to a highly contentious process.
The European Parliament is set to decide whether it will vote next week in plenary on a divisive resolution adopted last month to back up the European Union’s plan to launch trade negotiations with the United States.
Georgia, a small country in the Caucasus with a ‘frozen conflict’ on its territory ever since the 2008 war with Russia, has been eager to grow closer to the European Union. Despite pressing state-building priorities and a worrisome internal security situation, Tbilisi has proven diligent in implementing its 2014 ‘deep …
This week the news focus has been on WTO, China and Brexit. Here some other interesting bits of Brussels trade news for you. US auto tariffs: Habeck says EU retaliation should target digital, airlines In an interview with the leading German business daily Handelsblatt this week, Robert Habeck, one of …
Palm oil growers have signalled they could take the European Union to the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement body over its new biofuels regulation. The EU is preparing a definitive version of a ‘delegated act’ pertaining to its new Renewable Energy Directive that sets the environmental criteria required for biofuels …
