News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, April 25, 2025
The European Union doesn’t have the right institutions to deal with the crises it has been facing ever since the 2008 financial crisis. Whether it can withstand the next big storm coming with Donald Trump’s second term in the Oval Office remains to be seen. Consistent rule-enforcement and intelligent deal …
In less than two weeks the commissioners in-waiting nominated by president Ursula von der Leyen will start being heard by members of the European Parliament in view of their confirmation votes next month. Based on the various statements sent to committees ahead of the hearings, there is one major change …
Ursula von der Leyen is expected to be confirmed for a second term as president of the European Commission by the European Parliament today on the basis of a working programme for the years 2024-2029 that emphasizes security issues.
This week’s international think tanks’ focus: the trade implications from the European Union’s elections, reducing EU reliance on Chinese supply chains, the realities of United States’s industrial policy, ASEAN’s digital trade agenda – and streamlining EU action on critical raw materials.
The ratification by the European Parliament of a trade agreement with New Zealand this week is the swan song of a long EU policy cycle made of globalising optimism and constructive economic diplomacy. Next year’s European Parliament elections might mark the turn to darker times.
The European Parliament’s international trade committee wants the European Commission to up its game in its trade cooperation efforts with Taiwan.
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.
Shameful. And dangerous. And this is not about a few tonnes of wheat. This is dangerous for the European Union as a polity. This is dangerous for its standing as a global trading power.
The European Commission obtained very little from Washington in terms of concessions on the Inflation Reduction Act this week. There is in fact, little the EU can do to see the United States change course. In many ways the whole diplomatic episode around US clean tech subsidies that began in …
Below, a few key developments in EU trade this week as we await the outcome of a jumbo-trilogue on the EU’s climate package that will decide on the final shape of the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism. By Rob Francis and Iana Dreyer.
