News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Covid-19 has disrupted the African Continental Free Trade Agreement launch and negotiations, African Union Commissioner for Trade and Industry Albert Muchanga said during a webinar by Friends of Europe on Thursday (19 November). African Union leaders are also calling for better alignment between the new continental trading zone and bilateral …
Borderlex spoke to Susan Danger, CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union, on what EU-United States trade relations might look like under president-elect Joe Biden’s future administration.
“The next four years are probably a last chance for the Europeans to reshape the transatlantic alliance for the 21st century,” former European Union ambassador to the United States David O’Sullivan said. Speaking at the annual Spirits Summit on Wednesday (18 November), O’Sullivan—who was also director-general for DG Trade from 2005 …
UC Berkeley economist Joseph Shapiro is of the view that trade policy is “sending the wrong price signal” by bolstering trade in dirty goods in comparison to cleaner products, especially in Europe. Speaking to Borderlex’s Sarah Anne Aarup, Shapiro said that rather than raising trade barriers on dirty goods, focusing …
This week’s Union for the Mediterranean trade ministerial meeting saw leaders express hopes for stronger regional economic integration and a greater role for the region in ‘near-shoring’ industrial supply chains in the post-Covid-19 era. But twenty-five years into the existence of the Barcelona Process – which ministers celebrated this week …
This article was updated at 17.55 CET on 9 November 2020. Today, the European Union has declared that it will strike United States goods with US $4 billion-worth of tariffs in the latest Airbus-Boeing dispute development. At the same time it is trying to send soothing messages to the next …
As ballots were still being counted in the United States presidential elections, Borderlex’s Sarah Anne Aarup spoke to the European Parliament’s international trade committee chair Bernd Lange (S&D). Lange is also rapporteur on EU-United States trade relations.
The EU-US mini trade pact known as the ‘lobster deal’ may not receive the European Parliament’s green light until after the United States elections, according to European lawmakers in the international trade committee meeting today (15 October). In a U-turn, INTA committee chair Bernd Lange (S&D) expressed doubts about endorsing …
“We’d like to maximally use [our association agreement’s] potential and develop mutual trade relations,” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said after the EU-Ukraine summit on Tuesday (6 October). The in-person summit in Brussels was a way to prepare for the 2021 review and potential upgrade of the EU-Ukraine association agreement, which …
Today, MEPs in the European Parliament plenary approved Valdis Dombrovskis as the EU’s new trade chief with 515 votes in favour, 110 votes against and 70 abstentions.
