Handel mit USA: Das Chlorhuhn ist zurück
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Es ist zurück: Das Chlorhuhn. Jahrzehnte nach TTIP geistert das Symbol des transatlantischen Handelsstreits erneut durch die europäische Debatte – denn...
View ArticleVon der Leyen: I won’t meet Trump in US until we can have ‘concrete’ trade talks
Ursula von der Leyen will visit U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington soon — but not before there’s a “concrete” trade package that can be negotiated between Europe and the United States, she said...
View ArticleMacron’s office rules out reviving EU-US free trade deal for now
PARIS — France doesn’t yet want to conjure the ghost of a dead transatlantic free trade agreement. An official from French President Emmanuel Macron’s office told POLITICO on Sunday that Paris is not...
View ArticleFrance floats resurrecting doomed EU-US trade deal it used to oppose
PARIS — French Economy and Finance Minister Eric Lombard said Wednesday the European Union and the United States should try to conclude a free-trade agreement. Lombard called for “greater commercial...
View ArticleWho is Friedrich Merz? Meet Europe’s most powerful leader as US turns its back
BERLIN — Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s most American chancellor. Never in history has a German head of government had more affinity for the United States. Merz has traveled to the U.S....
View ArticleHow Europe should react to the US presidential elections
Jörg Rocholl is the president of the European School of Management and Technology, Berlin. Too close to call and too difficult to predict. Even with two months to go until the U.S. presidential...
View ArticleBrussels tells Scholz not to revive ghost of TTIP
The specter of a trade war with the U.S. is spooking European leaders — but officials on both sides of the Atlantic recoiled at one nightmarish solution put forward by Olaf Scholz. A spokesperson for...
View ArticleGermany wants new trade talks with US after midterm elections
The German government wants the EU to enter swiftly into renewed trade talks with the U.S. following the midterm elections on Tuesday, a spokesperson said Monday. “There is a desire to have...
View ArticleFrance plays bad cop as transatlantic trade tensions ramp up
PARIS — U.S. President Joe Biden needs to watch out; France is resuming its traditional role as Europe’s troublemaker on the transatlantic trade front. It had seemed like the bad blood between...
View ArticleBrussels launches power grab to fast-track EU trade deals
Brussels wants greater powers to push EU trade deals over the finish line without having to consult almost 40 national and regional parliaments, seeking to deliver a shot in the arm to the bloc’s...
View ArticleHow UK trade went woke
LONDON — Welcome to the new era of woke trade. New U.K. deals will reduce tariffs, ease the flow of data across borders and … improve gender rights. Sexism is just one of the social issues cropping...
View ArticleTransatlantic trade deal rises from the grave to fight China
Activists may have thought the politically explosive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between Europe and America were dead and buried. But one of the most important...
View ArticleEurope’s glory days of trade deals are over
Striking trade deals is only getting tougher for the EU. Under previous European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Brussels’ trade negotiators were on a deal-making roll, concluding or signing...
View Article‘Very difficult’ for UK and US to strike post-Brexit deal, says ex-UK trade...
LONDON — It will be “very difficult”for Downing Street to strike a trade deal with Donald Trump after Brexit, a former U.K. trade minister has warned. Francis Maude, who served as both a Cabinet Office...
View ArticleBrussels’ Brexit bad cop goes global
You can’t accuse Sabine Weyand of pulling her punches. With her pointed, sometimes jovial, sometimes brusque communication style, the 55-year-old German civil servant is bulldozing her way to the top...
View ArticleHow Europe’s biggest media company infiltrated the EU
BERLIN — Martin Selmayr was on a mission. The European Parliament election was still nine months off, but across the Continent populist forces were already roiling the political debate. Selmayr, who as...
View ArticleOettinger: China is the ‘biggest winner’ from EU’s Brexit ‘paralysis’
The Brexit deadlock has paralyzed Europe and bolstered China, European Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger said. In an interview with Die Welt published Monday, Oettinger said the prolonged...
View ArticlePOLITICO’s most-read stories of 2018
It was the year of Trump vs. the world. From his breakup with one-time bestie Emmanuel Macron, to his animosity toward long-time foe Angela Merkel, China and even Queen Elizabeth II, the increasingly...
View ArticleJuncker and Trump’s trade truce falters
Europe’s fragile peace deal with the U.S. on trade is at breaking point. Washington is again threatening high tariffs on Europe’s all-important car industry just as U.S. President Donald Trump is...
View ArticleEU says it is willing to scrap car tariffs in US trade deal
Brussels is willing to scrap tariffs on all industrial products, including cars, in its trade talks with the United States, EU trade chief Cecilia Malmström said Thursday. “We said that we are ready...
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