[sh_light_text ]The new year festivities in Europe are over. In 2015 the EU will face a busy trade policy agenda and some daunting challenges in fulfilling its objectives and promoting its interests. We outline some of them.[/sh_light_text]
Tag: Russia
EU not yet ready to talk to Eurasian Economic Union as WTO cases mount
[sh_light_text ]Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor, recently talked favourably of the idea of launching free trade talks with the Eurasian economic union (EEU). The EEU is due to come into force in January and deepen economic ties between Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, the project’s main champion. But there are no signs Brussels is moving …
Russia warns Ukraine and EU not to implement Association Agreement
This article was first published by Business New Europe, our editorial Partner. Russian economy minister Aleksei Ulyukaev has warned Ukraine and the EU in a letter not to implement their Association Agreement signed on September 15. Otherwise Russia will place restrictions on its trade with Ukraine. Postponement of implementation of the …
EU Ukraine DCFTA : EU ready to agree to significant carve-outs
[sh_light_text ]The German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung writes this morning that the EU is ready to accept that large swaths of the 1500-page long deep and comprehensive free trade agreement (DCFTA) signed this spring with Ukraine will not come into force. [/sh_light_text] Today, officials from Ukraine, Russia and the EU are holding a meeting to reach …
Business & European sanctions against Russia: the uncertainty factor
[sh_light_text ]EU exports to Russia have plummeted. This is not only because of this year’s EU sanctions and Russian import bans. Russia is having a recession. But the direct cost of sanctions has to do with the fact that they create a general sense of uncertainty, thus holding back business decisions, writes Iana Dreyer.[/sh_light_text]
EU Ukraine DCFTA vs Eurasian customs union: flexibilities on technical standards implementation in sight
[sh_light_text ]During a summit in Minsk this week German Chancellor Angela Merkel provoked an outcry when she told Russian President Vladimir Putin that she wouldn’t raise objections if Ukraine decided to join the Eurasian Union, the regional economic and political project championed by Moscow. Commentators in Europe have seen this …
Column: 10 headline figures – EU-Russia economics and trade this summer
By Iana Dreyer This has been a sad summer for Europe. The fact that holiday pleasures for those who enjoyed some were dampened by bad weather turns out to be a minor inconvenience in a season overshadowed by the crisis in Ukraine, the political unravellings in the Middle East, and bad news for the economy in Eurozone’s core economies, including …
A $ 50 bn award concludes long-standing Energy Charter Yukos case
[sh_light_text ]A Hague tribunal US$ 50 bn award concludes one of the world’s most high-profile expropriation cases, that of Yukos, the former biggest Russian oil company previously owned by Michail Khodorkovsky, reports Iana Dreyer.[/sh_light_text]
Comment: Not going ballistic – Why Russia won’t start a trade war with Ukraine this time round
[sh_light_text ]High-level officials from the European Union (EU), Ukraine and Russia are holding a ‘trilateral’ meeting in Brussels today. They plan to address Russia’s commercial concerns about the impact the free trade deal (DCFTA) Brussels and Kiev signed in late June might have on its trade with Ukraine. Ukraine and …
Blog: Reading for the week-end – Ukraine-Russia trade issues
Next week, Brussels, Kiev and Moscow are expected to discuss their tripartite trade relationship after the EU and Ukraine finally signed off their Association Agreement one week ago. Over the last week, our partner BNE published a series of articles related to the whole Ukraine issue that are really worth reading.
