News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Monday, January 18, 2021
EU UK TCA: European Parliament wants more scrutiny powers and more time European Parliament committees scrutinised the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement this week. The series of meetings culminated in a joint meeting of the foreign affairs and international trade committee on Thursday. This kick-starts a formalised consent procedure involving …
UK gets tougher on trade with Xinjiang region as China concerns mount British traders are to face internal sanctions if they trade with businesses connected with the Xinjiang region of China, where there is growing concern over the oppression of the Uyghur minority by the Beijing government. Businesses found to …
Developments on the UK trade policy front in its first week after the end of the Transition Period: Northern Ireland, hiccups in the Ghana EPA roll-over, food standards and UK trade legislation as well as personnel changes at the Department for International Trade.
Nikos Lavranos analyses the EU UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement’s much-discussed level playing field, governance and dispute settlement provisions, with a related detour via climate change and energy.
This is an initial run through some of the ‘non-goods’ trade aspects of the EU UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement inked on Christmas Eve and released for the world to read on Boxing Day. The main elements of goods trade were covered by Chris Horseman on Sunday. Plain English The …
An overview of key elements agreed in the EU UK Trade and Cooperation agreement – goods trade.
The race against time in getting an EU-UK trade pact in place is not quite over despite the fact that negotiators managed to put the final touches on what is now officially called the EU-UK ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ to shape post-Brexit relationships going forward.
The EU and the UK are negotiating the final details of their future partnership agreement – they are now concretely talking about a compromise over fisheries. Whereas all deadlines to make the deal match the requirements of UK and especially EU parliamentary scrutiny, it is clear the two sides will …
This is an exceptional second edition of our Week in London column – focused on domestic trade issues and UK talks with everyone else except the EU….
Fisheries is clearly the very last sticking point in the negotiations towards a post-Brexit agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom, chief negotiator Michel Barnier told the European Parliament on Friday (18 December) morning.
