News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
We are midway into the Buenos Aires World Trade Organization ministerial meeting. Here’s what’s shaping up: likely no formal deal, all fending for themselves, some serious work on e-commerce going forward – and India in all this. No actual deal, abundant work programmes Negotiators hoped that there could …
Borderlex’s Iana Dreyer on why services exports matter to Britain and how the EU single market compares to other free trade agreements in boosting the UK’s export prowess.
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 …
The European Parliament’s trade committee endorsed a report initiated by Marietje Schaake calling for an EU digital trade strategy and for expediting policies to secure free flows of data across borders. The Schaake report makes recommendations to policymakers on e-commerce, net neutrality and online consumer protection, among others. The …
Today EU member states gathered around the Commission to take stock of various free trade agreement files. Here a run through what we have gathered at the foreign affairs Council and during the past week in Brussels. EU Mercosur and EU Mexico free trade negotiations “We are now entering …
Not every day is scoop bonanza in trade policy. One of these days seems to be today. But there are a few files sizzling in the background that will lead to further stories down the road. CETA day coming Of course, tomorrow, 21 September, CETA is coming into …
The British government will seek to obtain an adequacy decision from Brussels over its data protection rules as it leaves the EU. Whitehall is also signalling interest in continuing to be involved in setting EU rules, a widely anticipated “future partnership” paper from the Department for Exiting the European Union …
The European Parliament’s trade committee examined an initial working document put together by Marietje Schaake (ALDE, NL) on digital matters in trade policy. The document, presented on Monday (10 July 2017) calls for an ambitious international commercial strategy for all things digital, while also asking that trade be “used as …
A group of 15 EU member states has called on the EU Commission to step up efforts to draw up a common position that secures free cross border data flows in free trade agreements. The move comes at a time when the EU is finalising its four year old …
G20 members agreed to a common agenda on digital trade at a meeting in Düsseldorf on Friday (7 April 2017). European business wants more ambition from the G20 ahead of the next WTO ministerial meeting. The main achievements of the German-hosted ministerial meeting that gathered countries as wide apart in development …
