News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
The European Commission announced it was planning to suspend import duties of 5.5% and 6.5% on nitrogen based inputs for fertiliser production. This is seen as a means to support food production and keep prices in check in response to the fallout of the war in Ukraine.
“Engaging China will remain key”, concluded the European Commission’s director-general for trade in a short Twitter thread following the first High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue held since 2020. The meeting was chaired by China’s vice-premier Liu He and the EU’s commission executive vice president Valdis Dombrovskis. It was held …
The EU and Canada finalised negotiations towards a mutual recognition agreement of professional qualifications for architects. It took them five years to fulfil the pledge included in the text of their free trade agreement CETA, which has been in force provisionally since September 2017.
Comparing a range of international financial flows from governments to private firms with the European Union state aid environment in its single market is risky enough from the perspective of World Trade Organization legality. But the new EU foreign subsidies regulation is due to take another dive into the international …
The French presidency of the EU worked until the very last hours of its rotating presidency to bring an inter-institutional agreement to bed on a regulatory file that will drastically change the way foreign investment compliance procedures will operate in the single market. This evening the three institutions announced a …
Everything that has to do with climate-and-trade policy cooperation among the great powers, especially the European Union and the United States remains vague, woolly and hard to fathom. Nonetheless, a further step towards a certain degree of clarity was taken at Elmau at the G7 leaders’ summit hosted by Germany. …
Energy Charter Treaty diplomats have closed in on difficult negotiations to ‘modernise’ a treaty that originally aimed at promoting trade and protecting energy investments on the Eurasian landmass after the fall of the Soviet Union.
After an intense week at the World Trade Organization headquarters in Geneva, India’s trade minister Piyush Goyal and the European Commission’s executive vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis went on to hold further meetings in Brussels today. They then formally kick-started long-announced bilateral trade negotiations – showing little signs of exhaustion in a …
As the European Union prepares to offer Ukraine a membership perspective, Nazar Bobitski talked to Borderlex’s Iana Dreyer about how it can support Ukraine’s country’s blockaded exports, its economic integration with Europe and its post-war economic recovery.
The latest round of Energy Charter Treaty modernisation negotiations ended on Tuesday (14 June), after an extension from three days of talks held last week. There is no final agreement yet in sight on some of the most sensitive files.
