News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Russia has largely lost its appeal of a World Trade Organization ruling that faulted dumping duties on certain Italian and German light commercial vehicles. Today’s Appellate Body ruling means Moscow must remove the levies or face possible retaliation by the European Union. The case marked the first time a …
Insisting that it has complied with a World Trade Organization ruling faulting its ban on European pork imports, Russia has asked for consultations with the EU to discuss the matter. If the discussions fail to resolve the dispute – as they almost certainly will – Moscow’s next step would be …
Not surprisingly, Moscow has announced that it plans to fight efforts by the EU to slap 1.39 billion euros in trade sanctions on Russia for failing to lift a ban on European pork and pigs. If the EU convinces World Trade Organization judges that Russia continues to flout global trade …
It’s been a packed week for trade in Brussels as everyone prepares to break for Christmas. The trade talks with Mexico did not conclude successfully, and the European Commission is still wrangling over data flows in free trade agreements. The commission came up with a tough transition offer for …
Welcome to a new weekly column ‘A week in Brussels’ with the highlights of the trade week in Brussels. I hope you enjoy it! The trade week in Brussels ends with an understated Eastern Partnership summit. It brings together of a group of disparate countries traumatised by the Ukraine crisis …
If last week was quiet in Brussels on trade, this week will be overloaded with trade policy meetings. A new round of EU Mercosur free trade negotiations is taking place in Brasilia this week. Mercosur will also be central to the agriculture and fisheries Council meeting held today …
There’s been a frenzy of EU trade related activity this week. It looks like it’s a big rush before the summer lull. Here a curation of what we found interesting. EU and WTO round-up The EU is pressing its fellow WTO members on fisheries subsidies ahead of the Buenos Aires …
The European Parliament endorsed a package of unilateral trade preferences granted to Ukraine on top of those contained in its Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the EU. The scope of the extra market openings to the EU’s eastern neighbour was scaled down after MEPs voted down last month a first series …
The European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament reached a political agreement in their ‘trilogue’ talks regarding unilateral trade preferences the EU is planning to grant Ukraine. The deal was sealed late in the night of 13 June 2017. The final offer to Ukraine could be made during …
A new paper by the Polish international affairs think tank PISM criticises the EU’s inconsistent way of dealing with the consequences of a recent Court of Justice ruling on a 2012 agriculture trade agreement with Morocco that it applied to products from Western Sahara. The EU should come clean on this issue …
