News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Sunday, February 28, 2021
World Trade Organization member countries are planning to submit one of the institution’s most important and most contentious agreements – the SPS Agreement – to a 25-year overhaul. Proposals are being discussed for a Sanitary and Phytosanitary Declaration to be finalised at the WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference scheduled to be …
So it looks like there is no obvious European Union candidate left to pull out of the hat like a rabbit ahead of next week’s deadline to file CVs for the director-general role for the World Trade Organization. With Hogan having pulled out of the race, and former ITC chief …
COVID-19 trade collapse “could have been worse” says WTO’s Azevêdo The WTO released fresh data on global trade flows during the pandemic. Initial estimates for the second quarter, when the virus and associated lockdown measures affected a large share of the global population, indicate a year‑on‑year drop of around 18.5%,” …
We are pilot-testing a new regular column, the WTO Corner. It will offer a selection of news related to the world trade body in Geneva. The angle we are taking to looking at the WTO will be European in a broad sense, though hopefully not euro-centric. Today’s round-up was put …
