Many European companies are keen to come to China. While in the past, European companies came to China to take advantage of low-cost manufacturing for export, more recently, they have come to enter the Chinese domestic market, establish R&D collaborations, engage in cooperative development, take...
The United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union has brought significant uncertainty for the fisheries sector. Fisheries, and especially EU fishing rights in UK waters, played a prominent role in the recent negotiations on future EU-UK relations and ultimately became the final obstacle ...
On 1 January 2021, the United Kingdom will leave the EU Single Market and Customs Union, and all EU policies. This was its choice. As a result, it will lose all the rights and benefits it had as an EU Member State, and will no longer be covered by the EU’s international agreements. This will bri...
In November 2019, the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) requested to draw up an own-initiative report on the implementation of the EU association agreement with Moldova (2019/2201(INI)). This European implementation assessment (EIA) is an update to the EIA on the associat...
LSE Consulting, the consulting arm of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), has arried out out a Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) in support of the negotiations for the odernisation of the trade part of the Global Agreement (GA) between the European Union (EU) and Mex...
The EU-Central America Association Agreement was signed in June 2012 and its trade pillar has been provisionally in force since December 2013. This evaluation assesses specifically the implementation of the trade and sustainable development (TSD) chapter of the trade pillar of this agreement dur...
The annual activity report is a management report from the director-general of DG Trade to the College of Commissioners. Annual activity reports are the main instrument of management accountability within the Commission and constitute the basis on which the College takes political responsibility...
Currently, the European Union (EU) and Australia (EU-AUS) as well as the EU and New Zealand (EU-NZ) are considering to start negotiating bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Indeed, both Australia and New Zealand are close partners to the EU. Thus, comprehensive economic relations could provi...