News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Thursday, January 21, 2021
This week has seen two ‘strategic’ initiatives: the launch of a new paper on EU-US relations and the upgrading of EU-ASEAN relations post RCEP. Here other developments of potential interest. Dombrovksis talks to French Senate – Paris CETA ratification date unclear Nobody knows yet when the French government will put …
Good afternoon, an overview of interesting trade policy developments in Brussels this week. 35% of EU exports to be covered by trade agreements in 2024 and other strategic objectives The European Commission’s trade directorate released its 2020 ‘Strategic Plan’ this week. The document spells out how the body will approach …
This has been quite the packed week in EU trade. Here some more. By Sarah Anne Aarup and Iana Dreyer.
A special notification mechanism for breaches of labour and environmental provisions could end up being the ‘magic trick’ that sways the Dutch parliament to ratify the EU’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada, reports Nikos Lavranos.
A selection of EU trade policy news from this week in Brussels. By Sarah Anne Aarup, with some input from Iana Dreyer.
Former Canadian ambassador to the European Union David Plunkett on the history of the the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement – mostly known as CETA – and what it means for Canada and the European Union today. Plunkett spoke with Borderlex’s Sarah Anne Aarup and Iana Dreyer.
A vote on a low-key European Parliament report this week turned into a major battle over the direction of trade policy in a post COVID-19 world. It worked as a catalyst, revealing growing rifts reaching right into the political centre-ground on European trade politics in a turbulent time. Green goals …
It’s three years since Canada and the European Union provisionally applied the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, aka CETA. Leaders on both sides of the Atlantic are taking stock of which parts of the deal work and which don’t. Meanwhile dark clouds loom over the deal’s definitive ratification in …
The Dutch Parliament is in the process of preparing to ratify CETA, the flagship free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada. And it’s turning out to be a dramatic process, although confidence has grown that the first vote next week will be positive. CETA is provisionally in force …
Dear readers, this is the last Week in Brussels column before our summer recess. The next Week in Brussels column will appear on 30 August 2019. We will publish very sparingly over the next two weeks due to the general recess period in relevant European and international trade institutions. Here …
