TAG: Trade Agreements
Macron flirts with EU-bashing in wink to French farmers
PARIS — As angry French farmers threaten to blockade the roads into Paris, Emmanuel Macron wants to...
8 months ago
French farmers attack foreign trucks, destroy cargoes, report says
PARIS — French farmers have attacked foreign trucks transporting imported produce in the southern Dr...
8 months ago
Rishi Sunak’s Brexit trade agenda is faltering. Are the Gulf states his last hope?
LONDON — On the Red Sea coast at the northwest tip of Saudi Arabia, plans for an outlandish £400 billion ‘mega-city’ featuring an artificial moon and flying taxis are starting to take shape.While far from completion, the enigmatic project — known as NEOM...
6 months ago
Macron bets on investments and fraternité to charm Lula in first visit to Brazil
BELÉM, Brazil — “You can do business without necessarily having trade agreements,” French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters bombarding him with questions on why he so adamantly opposes an EU trade deal with Brazil and other South American countries...
6 months ago
Europe’s farmers revel in affection despite Green Deal clash
BRUSSELS — If love is a drug, the farmers of the European Union should be as high as kites.After years of being elbowed to the sidelines of political debate, recent farmer protests have made agriculture almost sexy. So chic, in fact, that its practitioner...
5 months ago
Watch out Brussels, Geert Wilders’ new Dutch government is coming
Geert Wilders’ far-right party is set to become part of the Dutch government — and the shockwaves won't take long to hit the EU machine in Brussels.After six months of wrangling and painful negotiations, the Netherlands finally has a governing agreement f...
4 months ago
UK ‘nowhere near’ renegotiating trade deal with EU, says David Lammy
LONDON — The Labour government has promised to “reset relations” with the European Union, eight tumultuous years after the U.K. voted to leave the bloc.But speaking on Thursday morning, just hours before he was preparing to welcome dozens of European lead...
2 months ago
The UK’s Brexit dream is dead
LONDON — British voters head to the polls Thursday for their first general election outside the European Union. But in so many ways, the Brexit dream has already died.All the key Vote Leave characters have left the stage. Five years after winning a landsl...
2 months ago
Is Brexit Britain about to turn into Switzerland — without the fondue?
It’s the one thing nobody wanted to happen. Now it might happen anyway.Brussels hates its relationship with Switzerland: A complex tartiflette of over 120 different bilateral agreements that seems to constantly be up for renegotiation.When Brexit talks be...
2 months ago
EU snubs Hungary and Slovakia over Ukraine oil sanctions
BRUSSELS — The European Commission has no plans to begin formal talks with Ukraine after Kyiv imposed a partial ban on exports of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, the EU executive said on Thursday.In June, Ukraine adopted sanctions blocking the transi...
2 months ago
What the new French government means for Brussels
PARIS — After two months of anxious waiting, France finally has a new government. President Emmanuel Macron's loyalists managed to keep hold of key ministries spanning from the economy to energy, meaning that France's position on major economic files is n...
3 weeks ago
UK accused of stifling legal challenge to Australia trade deal
LONDON — On a high after Labour’s knock-out victory over the Tories at July’s general election, newly elected Environment Secretary Steve Reed made a bold promise he may now come to regret.“We will stop farmers ever again being undercut by dodgy Tory trad...
1 week ago
Pro-Ukraine pledges proving too contentious for EU-Gulf summit, leak shows
The EU is struggling to get Gulf countries on board with a series of pro-Ukraine commitments ahead of a leaders’ summit on Wednesday in Brussels, according to a draft statement seen by POLITICO. The EU-Gulf summit, the first of its kind, is meant as a sho...
1 day ago