News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Saturday, June 25, 2022
This has been a heavy-duty week in EU trade, with the transatlantic relationship thrown in disarray by the new Court of Justice of the EU’s ruling on the EU-US Privacy Shield. Also the EU and India genuinely want to move on and established a High Level Dialogue. The European Commission …
Britain has fanned the flames of its simmering argument with the European Union over Northern Ireland by insisting that it has no need to install any additional customs infrastructure for trade coming into Northern Ireland from Great Britain. This is despite the fact that Northern Ireland ports will essentially become …
The British government and European Commission finally got down to work last week on the tricky issue of how to administer trade in and out of Northern Ireland once the Brexit process is finalised at the end of this year. Although the Northern Ireland Protocol takes up some 32 pages …
By Chris Horseman and Iana Dreyer Food security, durum wheat Brussels trade policy continues on a slow churn as the EU battles to save itself from its single market fragmentation and to upkeep its vital interests on trade – namely keeping foreign and its own market open for vital supplies, …
There is “an urgent need” to start detailed work on implementing the procedures governing the movement of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland once the United Kingdom exits the European Union’s customs union next year, European Commission officials said on Monday. In an official statement issued after the first …
Amid the flurry of cancelled meetings as the Covid-19 lockdown bites, one key meeting will go ahead next Monday, albeit by videoconference: the inaugural meeting of the EU-UK Joint Committee to implement the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.
