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Tuesday, July 25, 2017
At a trade policy meeting this morning (14 July 2017) member states diplomats unanimously agreed to declassify negotiating directives in trade negotiations with Japan, sources told Borderlex. The European Parliament, backed by national parliaments, civil society organisations, and the EU Ombudsman have repeatedly called on the EU to release its trade negotiation …
The Foreign Trade Association, the EU’s main retailing and light industry organisation, released a new position paper on EU plans to adapt its trade defence methodology as it moves to do away with ‘non market economy’ status for countries like China. The organisation calls on the European Parliament to review its demands. The move came …
All the current talk about ‘regulating’ globalisation in Europe could lead to short-sighted protectionist policies. Corinne Vadcar outlines some pathways to make the most of openness and digitalisation.
The European Council on Friday (23 June 2017) yielded few surprising results in the area of trade – which was only one topic among others, including defence cooperation and Brexit. Member states reaffirmed the EU’s commitment to sustaining free trade and open markets, while developing a more ‘robust’ …
The European Summit has started in Thursday (22 June 2017). Trade is not on the agenda before Friday (23 June 2017). However, it is going to be a central topic. We’ve selected a few leader statements to gauge the political temperature and the objectives of a few member states on trade agreements, …
A new ‘trio’ of EU member states – Estonia, Bulgaria and Austria – are set to take over joint responsibility for the next three six-month Council presidencies in July 2017. Their programme released this week doesn’t dwell extensively on trade issues. The joint road map “provides a forward looking …
“Any society needs a social contract and that social contract means a spirit of community”, the social-democrat Dutchman said. “All the other things, better regulation, better energy union, better results in the internal market – people will say okay fine but what about us what are we as a community?”, …
In this Borderlex ‘In Depth’ report, Nikos Lavranos explains in detail the key conclusions of Opinion 2/15 of the CJEU on the status of the 2014 EU Singapore Free Trade Agreement under the EU’s division of competences under EU law released on 16 May 2017. Nikos Lavranos is Guest Professor …
MEPs from the centre-left group S&D in the European Parliament are about to release a declaration in response to the Commission’s recently released Harnessing Globalisation report. Whereas the Commission paper report has been welcomed in most trade circles, left and right of the political spectrum, a group of trade-sceptic MEPs …
The long-awaited ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU on the division of competences between Brussels and the member states on the content of the 2013/2014 free trade agreement with Singapore settles many perpetual power tussles between Brussels and the capitals on a variety of trade-related topics. The …
