News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
The European Union and five Eastern and Southern African countries are continuing to inch towards a deepening of their Economic Partnership Agreement following the most recent negotiating round held from 19-23 September in Antananarivo, Madagascar. But key stumbling blocks remain, notably on economic and development cooperation and the EU’s new …
Germany wants an “ambitious approach” to the European Commission’s proposed directive on corporate sustainability due diligence, according to Carsten Stender, a director-general within the German ministry of labour and social affairs.
The European Commission and Indonesia agreed to accelerate negotiations on a bilateral trade agreement.
The director-general of the European Commission’s trade directorate Sabine Weyand said there is a “new dynamism” in Europe when it comes to ratifying CETA, the landmark trade and investment agreement between the European Union and Canada. “The geopolitical situation has changed the debate on trade policy,” said the commission’s top …
The European Commission today published a legislative proposal which would give it powers to control and mitigate supply chain shortages within the single market during international crises. The proposal for a “single market emergency instrument” establishes a new mechanism to monitor the single market for supply shocks, identify risks, and …
G7 trade ministers pledged to “revive and reform the rules-based multilateral trading system with the WTO at its core” but remained vague in promises to further help Ukraine on the trade front in its war against Russia.
The European Commission released its long-awaited legislative proposal aiming at weeding out products from the EU’s market made with forced labour. The EU executive puts the onus on national authorities to monitor imports as well as products that have originated within the EU for signs of forced labour in their …
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen pledged to put forward for ratification the EU’s trade agreements with Chile, Mexico, and New Zealand. During her annual state of the union address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg today, the head of the EU executive also said that current trade negotiations …
The European Parliament voted to expand the list of products for which businesses in the European Union will have to undertake new due diligence procedures concerning deforestation.
The European Commission’s lead negotiator with Chile told members of the European Parliament that he is confident that a political conclusion to the trade pillar of the bilateral association agreement is “within reach and can be achieved before the end of the year”. Speaking during the meeting of the parliament’s …
