News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Monday, May 5, 2025
EU and Mexican trade negotiators are holding technical meetings in Brussels this week with the aim of making progress on updating their Global Agreement of 2001. EU sources report progress in the negotiations. But there are significant challenges ahead in achieving agreement on sensitive topics in the time frame …
EU officials are in Washington to try and build bridges with the United States administration on trade. Commission vice president Jyrki Katainen is leading the EU delegation, with trade officials like the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercero also in the US capital. The quest for …
From Brexit to trade defence, an overview of the trade policy churn in the EU this week. Brexit transition The beginning of week in Brussels will be dominated by the whole Brexit affair. European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker will meet British Prime Minister Theresa May, her number …
Trade ministers gathering informally in Brussels on Friday (13 October 2017) discussed the announcements by Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in his September State of the Union speech: new free trade agreements, the separation of negotiating tracks for EU-only trade agreements and ‘mixed’ investment agreements, the publication of member state trade …
Trade MEPs adopted two similar resolutions on free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand on Thursday (12 October 2017) in Brussels. The move comes as the EU Commission awaits a formal mandate from the member states to launch these negotiations. The two agreements will be negotiated separately. …
The European Parliament’s INTA committee adopted the following reports today (12 October 2017): Start of EU Australia and New Zealand free trade agreement negotiations – Rapporteur Daniel Caspary: 38 in favour, 5 against, 1 absention Definition, presentation and labelling of spirit drinks – Rapporteur Nicola Danti – 35 in favour, …
The EU and the South American bloc Mercosur are meeting again on the sidelines of the mini WTO ministerial meeting currently held in Morocco, the Commission announced today. The step follows a negotiation round towards a long-sought free trade agreement in Brasilia last week (2-6 October 2017) that put …
The central question hovering over the fourteenth EU India summit held this week in New Delhi was whether both sides would be able to revive long-stalled bilateral trade negotiations known under the acronym BTIA. Though the two parties didn’t manage to do so they committed to other steps to help …
Draft trade agreements currently under negotiation show the EU is ramping up its chapters on trade and sustainable development. One remaining open question is if these chapters will lead to a dispute settlement process that could lead to suspension of commercial preferences. The EU released the latest draft chapters …
Aegis Europe, the industry coalition that has been driving opposition in the EU to the granting of ‘market economy’ treatment to Chinese imports in the bloc’s trade defence instruments, welcomed the compromise reached on Tuesday (3 October 2017) between the EU’s three main institutions on a new trade defence regulation. …
