Seventeen ‘Global South’ countries are calling on the EU to scrap its plans to establish a three-tiered deforestation risk benchmarking system to assess the extent to which controls will be imposed on their exports at the border.
Environment, labour, human rights – regulations
Comment: EU 2024 elections could herald a trade policy of the ‘returns coordinator’
The far-right shift in European Union mainstream politics is set to reach a new stage in the coming parliament elections. It has already infected the EU’s trade policy as witnessed by interinstitutional negotiations over trade preferences for developing countries. Will the infection spread to other trade policy areas in the …
Flash: Push to get CSDDD, forced labour regulation over finish line
EU institutions are in a rush to finalise flagship legislation aiming to reduce industrial supply chain exposure to human rights abuses an environmental damages. The Belgian EU presidency hopes to announce an agreement of ambassadors to the EU tomorrow, Friday 8 March on the corpororate sustainability due diligence directive known …
Forced labour ban: trilogue negotiations concluded
The three EU institutions finalised overnight negotiations putting the finishing touches on a regulation that enacts a formal ban on products made with forced labour.
Comment: For gender-balanced trade, elect more women into parliaments
The upcoming European Parliament elections and general elections across Europe are an opportunity for women to elect more female representatives in the pursuit of gender-balanced trade policies.
Blog: Climate change, migration and trade policy – how to enable sustainable development
Borderlex hosted a panel discussion at the World Trade Organization’s Public Forum in Geneva on ‘How trade policy can make (climate) migration work’. Below you will find some key take-aways from this session, including quickly actionable policy recommendations. ***
THINK TANK: Border carbon measures, digital trade, interdependencies
In this week’s think tank column: carbon border adjustment, digital services trade and ‘strategic autonomy’.
Think tank: Russian LNG, Net Zero Industry Act, CSDD in Vietnam
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.
Blog: That “tangible” TTC outcome
A bit of sarcasm can’t do any harm, right?
Week in Brussels: Deforestation regulation outcry, steel safeguard revision, Petriccione loss
It’s still very quiet in Brussels but trade policy has started stirring ahead of a packed rentrée next week.
