News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
This week was dominated by the summit in Brussels between the EU, Latin America, and the Caribbean countries. Read our takeaway from the high-level powwow here. On Thursday (20 July) EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis met with US trade representative Katherine Tai to try and find a breakthrough in talks …
This week it’s Brussels’ Bruegel that isn’t pulling any punches on critical EU policies on Russian gas and net-zero technologies. The Institute for European Environmental Policy is proposing ways to implement the new EU sustainability due diligence regulations in countries such as Vietnam.
This week was dominated by the EU’s trade relations with South America as the European Commission presented a new strategy for the region. But not only.
The European Parliament voted on the high-profile Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence directive. The voting contest involved extra last-minute centre-right amendments in plenary. The single one adopted in the end could, if it survives inter-institutional negotiations, make it harder to sue company directors.
The European Union and the United States established a joint work programme under the Transatlantic Initiative on Sustainable Trade – TIST – during the fourth meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council in Luleå, Sweden. The TTC participants also agreed on a number of recommendations to eliminate forced labour. …
Clear fault lines are developing between the different political factions in the European Parliament over the scope and impact on the proposed EU ban on products made with forced labour.
It’s been a big week for those looking at supply chain management, with the corporate sustainability due diligence regulation moving ahead in in parliament and MEPs starting to look at the EU’s planned forced labour product ban. Also the international trade committee of the European Parliament voted in favour of …
The European Parliament’s lead committee on corporate sustainability due diligence today proposed to broaden the scope of companies which will need to carry out due diligence operations when new EU legislation comes into effect. MEPs in the legal affairs committee voted with 19 votes for, three against, and three abstentions, …
Here some notable developments in EU trade policy in this quiet Easter week.
