News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, May 2, 2025
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 – …
It’s been a big week for the big supply chain sustainability pieces of legislation of the soon-ending von der Leyen European Commission. A trilogue deal on forced labour was inked, and Coreper might well also endorse a watered-down version of the CSDDD corporate sustainability due diligence legislation today. It’s also …
The European Parliament’s international trade committee adopted without amendments a regulation renewing unilateral trade preferences offered to Ukraine to support its war-torn economy.
Ukraine has circulated its request for consultations with EU member states Hungary, Poland and Slovakia with the dispute settlement body in Geneva in relation to these countries’ unilateral import bans.
The EU import safeguard on grains from Ukraine imposed last April after five Central European countries arm-twisted the commission into saving the customs union and single market from their unilateral import bans is now officially dead. But it lives on in the form of Ukraine being obliged to manage its …
This week it’s Brussels’ Bruegel that isn’t pulling any punches on critical EU policies on Russian gas and net-zero technologies. The Institute for European Environmental Policy is proposing ways to implement the new EU sustainability due diligence regulations in countries such as Vietnam.
The trade ministers of the European Union are converging on Brussels on Friday (25 November) for their bi-annual formal meeting. Tomorrow’s gathering will deliver very little in terms of formal decisions, but it might help bring a few ongoing trade files forward.
As the European Union prepares to offer Ukraine a membership perspective, Nazar Bobitski talked to Borderlex’s Iana Dreyer about how it can support Ukraine’s country’s blockaded exports, its economic integration with Europe and its post-war economic recovery.
It’s been a decisive week. EU sanctions regime ventures into new* services export restrictions European Union member states finally agreed on a sixth package of sanctions targeting Russia. The highlight of this package is a partial oil embargo – six-month phase in and piped oil excluded – on imports from …
After the fifth round European Union of sanctions against Russia enacted on Friday (8 April), one can almost say the EU, in sync with its allies, is enacting a blockade against the country whose government has invaded Ukraine and committed atrocious war crimes there. Russia itself has responded in recent …
