Is the French government finally realising that blocking progress in bilateral trade agreements might not help its much-touted ‘strategic autonomy’ and supply chain resilience agenda that defines the country’s current rotating EU Council presidency?
Industrial policy and raw materials
Comment: Critical raw materials – a trade policy for sustainable supply chains
In a guest contribution for Borderlex, four Members of the European Parliament call for a trade policy that is better adapted to the European Union’s new Critical Raw Materials strategy as it rolls out its Fit-for-55 climate package. Concluding outstanding free trade agreements with Chile and Australia is seen as …
Week in Brussels : Strategic autonomy rentrée, southern neighbours
The atmosphere in Brussels in this 2021 European Union trade policy back-to-school week has been marked by deepening uncertainty over where the United States, Europe’s key security ally and largest trading partner, is heading. By Iana Dreyer and Rob Francis.
Post-pandemic EU trade policy: an integrated agenda emerges
July is the traditional time to take stock of EU trade policy, August usually being a more reliable and lengthy pause than the end of the year. The European Commission’s initially rather low-key trade agenda in the first semester of 2021 has become far more interesting and fast-moving. This is …
EU, Canada launch raw materials dialogue, to talk CBAMs, deepen CETA
The European Union and Canada held an overnight summit, which concluded with agreement to cooperate in a wide range of areas including health, climate change, trade and international security.
