News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Thursday, May 1, 2025
European Union member states, who came together at a summit today, have given the green light to the resumption of a stalled trade conversation with Turkey. The move follows on a recent de-escalation of political tensions with Ankara over the East Mediterranean and a recommendation by the European Commission to …
The US and EU are talking again on critical trade files, but dialogue is picking up in a piecemeal way.
In a joint statement circulated by the UK government, the EU and UK have announced that they working on a solution to overcome gripes about real or suspected current and future mutual restrictions on exports of COVID-19 vaccines and related ingredients and inputs. The EU has today amended its temporary …
As announced, the European Commission is tightening up its current export control regime for COVID-19 vaccines. The new rules will apply immediately for a period of six weeks. The EU introduced an export authorisation scheme for COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year amidst shortages, delays and supply bottlenecks of doses deliveries …
There is no more ducking the question in Europe of how to handle Taiwan. China increasingly asserts its clout over the South China Sea, Hong Kong and it is trying to do the same over Taiwan. Clearly the issue can no longer be brushed under the carpet in Brussels – …
The European Parliament is preparing a report on trade policy post COVID-19. The drafting is in the hands of the Belgian S&D group member Kathleen van Brempt and will help define the parliament’s positioning in several trade policy files in the coming months. A first version of the report is …
It’s been an eventful one and a half days on the foreign policy front – with significant implications for EU trade policy Here a little ‘quick and dirty’ update on where things stand. Airbus and steel and aluminium disputes on the immediate agenda of EU & US New USTR Katherine …
Instead of engaging in export controls, the world’s large vaccine producers should come together to clinch a ‘Covid-19 Vaccine Investment and Trade Agreement’, write Chad Bown and Thomas Bollyky in a new piece by the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics.
It’s been a long journey for Uzbekistan. The Central Asian country remains one of the world’s most closed and politically repressive countries, but it embarked on a new journey in 2016 after the passing away of Islam Karimov, a particularly cruel dictator. The five-year reform process might lead the country …
Internal European Union member state negotiations over a new regulation that could trigger price increases or market exclusion of third country bidders in public procurement markets are making progress again.
