International trade
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EU-China: Installers furious at solar panel tax
17 May 2013285PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
International Trade: Cultural exception: Paris finds some allies
15 May 2013747PresseuropLa Tribune -
Solar Power: ‘EU Readies Solar Tariffs In China Fight’
7 May 201316937PresseuropThe Wall Street Journal Europe -
Textile industry: Bangladeshi blood on EU shoppers’ hands?
3 May 2013144694 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam -
EU-United States: Free-trade zone no longer a dream machine
21 March 20131172PresseuropLes Echos -
USA-Europe: Stars and Stripes
14 February 2013682 Neues Deutschland Berlin -
USA-Europe: Why the EU should not get into bed with the US over trade
13 February 2013358136 Welt am Sonntag Berlin -
International trade: Courting the East
29 November 2012212PresseuropEUobserver.com -
EU-China: EU puts foot down on porcelain imports
19 November 2012698PresseuropLes Echos -
China: The 28th member state
8 November 2012925PresseuropDie Welt -
Russia: Anyone for a Trans-Siberian EU?
26 November 2010131PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
International Trade: Beijing is buying our connivance
8 November 2010170 Público Lisbon -
EU-CHINA: Time to change tack with Beijing
6 October 2010771 Le Soir Brussels -
Germany/China: Friends today, rivals tomorrow?
23 August 2010PresseuropDer Spiegel -
Agriculture: EU puts GM crops on the menu
10 June 2010621 Le Monde Paris -
EU-LAC summit: Deal or no deal with Latin America?
20 May 201013 Presseurop -
After Lisbon (2): Europe’s plot to take over the world
7 October 200926 Financial Times London -
Regional cooperation: Baltic Blues
17 August 2009Polityka Warsaw
The death of more than 400 people in a Bangladeshi clothing factory once again highlights the appalling conditions in factories where western manufacturers produce clothes. The EU is right to pressure local authorities, but should also probe other countries. 
A US-European free trade zone is on the agenda. There are at least four good reasons for Europe to stay away from it, writes the liberal Die Welt. 
Portugal, a nation battered by the crisis, is welcoming Chinese investment with open arms – as are Greece and France. But there’s a price to be paid for doing business with Beijing: the end of the West lecturing China on democracy. 
Europe lacks the necessary political armour to defend itself against China’s ongoing monetary and commercial offensive. A number of experts argue that a change in its historically benevolent attitude to Beijing is now on the cards. 
The European Commission intends to authorise more and more genetically modified crops (GMCs), leaving it up to member states to ban them as they see fit. That should satisfy biotech-friendly nations – while allowing those opposed to keep GMCs off their soil. 
Overshadowed by the economic storm which has swept across Europe, the 19 May conclusion of the sixth EU-Latin America and Carribean Summit (EU-LAC) was marked by the announcement of a number of trade deals and well-intentioned declarations. However, the Latin-American and Spanish press is not convinced that 2010 EU-LAC will herald a new era of closer relations between the two continents. 
Strengthened by Ireland’s ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union, it is argued, may now be on the verge of becoming a global superpower. The way to achieve this ambition, notes Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times, is in using the new platform that the G20 offers. 
Several years ago, the Baltic became the EU’s internal sea. But what kind of a sea is it? A shallow, closed, poor, one that divides rather than connects. On economic as well as environmental issues, the future of the Baltic states is bound in cooperation with neighbouring countries and with the European Union.