News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
As widely anticipated, the European Union extended on Thursday its export authorisation scheme for COVID-19 vaccines produced by firms with a procurement contract from the EU until the end of June 2021. The move comes amidst controversies over who among the continental EU and the ‘Anglos’ are greater vaccine nationalists. …
The European Parliament voted by a large majority on a report on a coming European Union ‘carbon border adjustment measure’ at a time when the United States and the EU are pulling out feelers to gauge the scope for joint global climate cooperation. The message rapporteur from the Greens group …
The European Court of Justice’s Advocate General Szpunar opined that the investor-state arbitration system under the Energy Charter Treaty is not applicable within the European Union. This will further increase the pressure on the ongoing ECT modernisation process and might very well herald the end of the ECT within the EU.
France is holding the key cards among European Union member states in having the long-awaited EU Mercosur trade pact ratified – perhaps one day – in Europe.
It’s been an eventful week, dominated by the new EU trade strategy or Trade Policy Review. Below, other important developments…
The European Commission is rolling out a new sustainable farming strategy as part of its Green Deal. That policy, like many other EU policies before, is set to spill over into the EU’s trade policy.
Malaysia has followed its neighbour Indonesia in taking WTO action against the European Union’s renewable fuel directive, in a fresh challenge to the legitimacy of Brussels’ flagship biofuels programme.
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 …
It is quite a momentous week for trade in general and trade policy in the European Union in particular, with the future partnership agreement with the United Kingdom in the final stages of negotiation and indications that perhaps there might be ‘white smoke’ on a hitherto elusive EU China investment …
The debate over next year’s announced European Union ‘Carbon Border Adjustment Measure’ is slowly gearing up. While nobody knows what measure will be put forward in the end – what we already know now is that it portends a major political battle next year over the future of existing EU …
