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Exclusive Interviews, Northern Ireland
Interview: Northern Ireland’s retailers ‘need more time’ to adapt to NI Protocol rules
1 day ago 0 commentsThe businesses which sit at the fulcrum of the United Kingdom’s’s new post-Brexit trade settlement – Northern Ireland’s retailers – are making the best of a situation that they never wanted to be in. But they are insistent that they need more time to establish a workable business model.
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Perspectives, UK WTO & 3rd countries
Perspectives: David Frost’s challenging double inheritance
1 week ago 0 commentsThe UK’s former chief EU negotiator David Frost has been promoted to a ministerial role, in which he will take charge of UK-EU relations and coordinate wider trade policy. The impact of previous decisions taken – or sometimes not – makes for a tricky inheritance. 2020 was a good year …
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EU trade policies, Latest news
The new EU trade strategy: self-centred multilateralism
2 weeks ago 0 commentsThe European Commission is officially releasing a long-announced new international trade policy strategy today. To those who are closely following the European Union’s trade policy there is little that is properly surprising or genuinely new in the text, but it confirms the continent’s shift towards a more defensive approach to …
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2020 DG nomination, Perspectives, World Trade Organization
Perspectives – WTO members must disagree better
3 weeks ago 0 commentsResolving the long list of outstanding World Trade Organization issues will require members to show the sort of flexibility shown by the United States in unblocking the appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the institition’s new Director General.
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China, Exclusive Interviews, Latest news, Social & human rights, South Asia & ASEAN
Interview: Pursuing the bigger picture in Asia
3 weeks ago 0 commentsNow that the European Union has inked an investment agreement with China it needs to take a big-picture geopolitical approach to the rest of the Asian region and a forward-looking approach to transatlantic relations, argues Reinhard Bütikofer in an interview with Borderlex.
European Union
EU-China trade and investment
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MEPs call for unilateral EU actions first before ratifying China investment agreement
24/02/2021The international trade committee debated the EU China Comprehensive Investment [...] -
Interview: Pursuing the bigger picture in Asia
09/02/2021Now that the European Union has inked an investment agreement with China it [...] -
EU China investment agreement: a thin deal
25/01/2021The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment is of limited scope compared [...]
- Week in Brussels: CAI text and controversy, Australia, enforcement regulation
- MEPs to keep China, Vietnam investment and trade agreements under human rights watch
- Weyand to US: let’s work together on labour rights
Trade, energy and environment
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ECJ Advocate General: Intra-EU Energy Charter Treaty investor-state arbitration is illegal
03/03/2021The European Court of Justice’s Advocate General Szpunar opined that the [...] -
France pours cold water on idea of swift EU Mercosur pact ratification
02/03/2021France is holding the key cards among European Union member states in having [...] -
Week in Brussels: EU wants fossil fuels out of ECT, anti-coercion, 4 new TDI cases, UK data adequacy
19/02/2021It’s been an eventful week, dominated by the new EU trade strategy or [...]
- European Commission eyes new FTA chapter on sustainable food systems
- Malaysia launches WTO dispute against EU’s renewable fuels directive
- Week in Brussels: MEP scrutiny of EU-UK TCA, carbon border measure, Korean surimi
South Asia, ASEAN
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Interview: Pursuing the bigger picture in Asia
09/02/2021Now that the European Union has inked an investment agreement with China it [...] -
Week Ahead: Okonjo Iweala to lead WTO, EU and UK India focus, UNCITRAL, Northern Ireland
08/02/2021WTO, India, ISDS reform and Northern Ireland in focus in today’s edition [...] -
MEPs to keep China, Vietnam investment and trade agreements under human rights watch
21/01/2021The European Parliament released a series of motions for resolutions on human [...]
- Malaysia launches WTO dispute against EU’s renewable fuels directive
- EU ASEAN to upgrade their relationship, set up palm oil working group
- Cambodia’s garment manufacturers sue EU over preference withdrawal