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Bilateral deal-making involving European governments.

last update: May 2012
photo: Mehr Demokratie e.V.

ETUC position on EU digital trade agreements with 3rd countries
31-Mar-2025 ETUC
Digital trade agreements should not prevent enforcement of workers’ rights or indeed the improvement of working conditions.
Negotiations update on an enhanced UK-Switzerland Trade Agreement
26-Mar-2025 UK Government
The sixth round of negotiations on an enhanced Free Trade Agreement with Switzerland took place in Switzerland between 3 and 10 March 2025.
Ukraine ready ‘to ratify free trade agreement with Türkiye’
14-Mar-2025 Hurriyet Daily News
Ukrainian President Zelensky announced that Ukraine views Türkiye as a key strategic and security partner, expressing readiness to ratify the Free Trade Agreement during President Erdoğan’s forthcoming visit.
Decolonising EU trade relations with the Global Souths?
28-Feb-2025 Journal of Contemporary European Research
This article thinks reflexively about the decolonial option and the ruptures it triggers as to what EU trade policy is and the colonial logics sustaining ‘normative’ and ‘geopolitical’ narratives on/by the EU as a trade power.
Czech farmers protest against Mercosur, food imports from Ukraine
28-Feb-2025 Euractiv
Czech farmers took to the streets across the country, with hundreds of tractors to protest against food imports from non-EU countries.
Business views on Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships (CTIPs)
26-Feb-2025 Business Europe
The EU should adopt a pragmatic and open approach, pursuing CTIPs with countries with vast resources of raw materials and minerals, and with countries that present opportunities for cooperation on clean tech, based on a value-chain approach.
Ukraine moves to expand free trade agreements
4-Feb-2025 NV
One of Ukraine’s key economic priorities is to sign free trade agreements (FTAs) with countries in the Pan-Euro-Med region.
EU and UK clash in first post-Brexit legal battle over North Sea fishing ban
30-Jan-2025 RFI
The hearing will delve into whether Britain’s fishing ban violates the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the European Union.
EU considering new trade regime with Ukraine, media reports
29-Jan-2025 The Kyiv Independent
The European Union does not plan to extend the preferential trade agreement framework in its current form past its June 5 expiration date and is considering a new set of rules instead.
As Trump returns, the EU rediscovers the art of the trade deal
27-Jan-2025 Politico
The European Union has clinched a string of pacts after the United States, its top trading partner, flipped into full protectionist mode.

    Links

  • Amfori
    European business lobby group on foreign trade issues
  • Collectif Stop Tafta / CETA
    Site internet du collectif français Stop TAFTA, CETA et autres accords de libre-échange
  • ESF
    The European Services Forum (ESF) is a network of representatives from the European services sector. We are committed to actively promoting the interests of the European services sector and the liberalisation of services markets throughout the world in connection with the GATS negotiations.
  • Eurochambres
    Eurochambres, a European business lobby group, webpage on FTAs
  • FOEE: Trade
    Friends of the Earth Europe’s special web section on trade deals
  • Handelskampanjen
    The Norwegian Trade Campaign will oppose the current, neo-liberal trade policies and fundamentally reform the trade policy system.
  • Pour
    POUR est un collectif citoyen qui met à votre disposition des analyses et prises de position d’experts, de philosophes, de sociologues, de juristes, d’économistes, de représentants syndicaux, de cinéastes, d’éditeurs belges et européens sur les accords de libre-échange
  • Seattle to Brussels Network
    The S2B network was formed in the aftermath of the WTO’s 1999 Seattle Ministerial to challenge the corporate-driven agenda of the European Union and other European governments for continued global trade and investment liberalisation.
  • Trade Leaks
    Greenpeace’s leaked documents underline the strong objections civil society and millions of people around the world have voiced.