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 …
Canada and CETA
Week in Brussels: Strategic plan, lobster deal, EP on TPR, Australia, Mercosur
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 …
Week in Brussels: Lobster deal, EU UK deal, ASEAN, CETA, India, Mercosur
This has been quite the packed week in EU trade. Here some more. By Sarah Anne Aarup and Iana Dreyer.
CETA ratification: How the Dutch government hopes to win over parliament
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.
Week in Brussels: CETA, carbon border adjustment, China GIs, EU customs single window
A selection of EU trade policy news from this week in Brussels. By Sarah Anne Aarup, with some input from Iana Dreyer.
Canada’s Plunkett: We’ve always been great multilateralists
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.
Post-COVID 19: Positions on trade harden in European Parliament
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 …
CETA three years on: what still remains to be done
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 …
Comment: What is the CETA drama in the Netherlands all about?
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 …
Week in Brussels: The French, CETA and Mercosur, treating UK as EU, recess reminder
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 …