Think tanks in Europe this week have been busy scrutinising the EU’s recently very active subsidy-industrial policy nexus.
EU trade policies
Blog: OECD looks to Indo-Pacific
It’s that time of the year when the OECD, the ‘rich-world think tank’ and occasional international treaty negotiation forum hosts its ministers in Paris. Overarching themes this year: supply chain resilience, sustainability, trade multilateralism Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific.
THINK TANK: US export controls, EU green trade missing dimension
After a May holiday hiatus, think tanks are coming back on stream with new reports. Here a selection of two notable reports on US export controls and the EU’s green trade agenda.
The EU’s anti-coercion instrument’s final fine print
The Council, the European Commission and the European Parliament have agreed on the final details of the EU’s anti-coercion instrument, whose contours were agreed in principle last March. The legislation is now due to come into force in the autumn 2023. So what’s the final deal?
Comment: TTC 4 addresses some recent transatlantic crises over tech, green subsidies
The fourth meeting of the EU-US mega-talk shop called the Trade and Technology Council in Sweden has, in the eyes of most observers, been the most productive of them all so far. Although it hasn’t delivered on some big-ticket items, a slew of small deals and initiatives start revealing its …
EU, Switzerland stare at self imposed June deadline to relaunch bilateral talks
The recent launch of United Kingdom-Switzerland negotiations to upgrade a bilateral agreement inherited from the former’s time as EU member and elections in 2024 are instilling a sense of urgency in Brussels about the need to get stalled bilateral negotiations with its Helvetic neighbour back on track.
THINK TANK: EU export controls, multilateralism, EV rules of origin
The European Council on Foreign Relations has been very active in recent days.
G7 to coordinate coercion responses while EU prepares economic security strategy
G7 leaders issued an exceptionally lengthy joint statement at a summit hosted by Japan in the city of Hiroshima that covers a range of topics from the war in Ukraine, to Taiwan, healthcare, food security and climate mitigation – to name some of the most important ones. One of the …
EU announces sweeping overhaul of customs management system
“This is the most ambitious and comprehensive reform that we proposed since the customs union was introduced in 1968,” said the European Commission’s Paolo Gentiloni on presenting new rules it is tabling to streamline EU customs to the press in Brussels.
Comment: The trade policy of Emergency Europe
Emergency Europe, a term forged during the eurozone crisis reached the EU’s trade policy during the pandemic. There are now-established patterns for many areas of trade policy affected by global and regional turmoil. Let’s brace for a more unpredictable EU.
