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O n 15 April 2019, the EU Council of Ministers agreed to resume negotiations on EU-US trade. Only France voted against and Belgium abstained from voting. According to POLITICO, the “agreement…
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T ransparency is a big and oft-heard word these days in Brussels. Every week dozens of private companies and…
T oday being pro-trade and defending globalisation seem to be out of fashion. After Trump crushed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP), and put the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) under his hammer, it does seem…
by Hanna Deringer, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
Trump’s rhetoric on trade during his election campaign set a bad tone for US trade policy in general, but also for EU-US trade relations. However, his views – or at…
by STEFAN LEHNE, HEATHER GRABBE
The EU should take Donald Trump’s arrival as U.S. president as a major wake-up call to upgrade its foreign and security policies. Trump’s comments on foreign policy during the election campaign suggest…
by Peter Chase
Many European citizens are concerned about the concept of investor–state dispute settlement, which is frequently portrayed as giving companies the right to sue governments for lost profits in secret international courts. Those…
by Maria Salfi
The trade benefits from TTIP can be significant, but not necessarily for SMEs. For many SMEs it takes courage to step out of their domestic markets and start exporting. With their resource constraints…
by Marco Trifuoggi
On October 14th, the European Commission has unveiled its new trade strategy, Commissioner Malmström’s latest effort to overcome the T-TIP impasse and relaunch EU trade. The text outlines several commitments that the Commission…
by Marco Trifuoggi
On September 16, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström unveiled a new proposal to address the widespread concerns in Europe on the dispute settlement mechanism previously included in the negotiations for the TTIP and…
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by Marco Trifuoggi
In recent months, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Agreement (TTIP) between the U.S. and the European Union has been all over the news, mainly because of its controversial ISDS clause; we…