News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Thursday, May 1, 2025
The European Union and the United States are still putting the finishing touches to their joint communiqué at the time of writing after an intense and productive bilateral summit which aimed to reset the relationship on many fronts after four years of turbulent relationships under the Trump administration. In terms …
The European Union and Canada held an overnight summit, which concluded with agreement to cooperate in a wide range of areas including health, climate change, trade and international security.
The European Union is planning to extend its three-year safeguard into imports of steel for another three years, in a move that is unprecedented in the EU’s trade defence history.
Whereas the meeting will no doubt be positive, expectations of what the next EU-US summit can actually achieve or even ‘boost’ on the transatlantic trade and tech agendas need some managing.
The new edition of the German Marshall Fund’s annual Transatlantic Trends makes for sobering reading for those with an interest in globalisation, trade, technology and geopolitics, comments IanaDreyer.
European Parliament sets up new UK Contact Group; EU Vietnam civil society dialogue postponed until further notice; France, Germany and Netherlands want even tougher rules on company takeovers by digital platforms.
The European Union and the United States are preparing to host their first bilateral summit in years, with president Biden coming in person to Brussels mid-June to seek to boost the transatlantic relationship. The political noises around a variety of ‘trade’ and ‘trade-and-tech’ files that will make it to the …
The Portuguese presidency of the European Union fulfilled its pledge to finalise internal negotiations within the Council to allow a long-awaited regulation on international procurement bids in Europe to proceed.
The European Union’s adoption of a Strategy for cooperation the Indo-Pacific in April 2021 is a milestone. But it lacks a much-needed reassessment of its trade policy in the region, especially as regards to ASEAN and Taiwan.
It’s been another intense week on the EU trade beat, with a revamped partnership with Japan, the collapse of EU Switzerland talks, MEPs voting on trade and health, and much more. Here other notable developments or bits of news on EU trade and G7, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea and trade …
