Introduction: EU Trade Policy Facing Unprecedented Challenges

Weiß, Wolfgang; Furculiță, Cornelia

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“…Even when trade matters become more political, there is no guarantee that it will be easier for national representatives to find a qualified majority in the committee/appeals committee to block Commission measures (Bourgeois & Chamon, 2021). The present politicised context of trade might make it even more difficult for the Council to determine a clear direction of trade policy or to find a qualified blocking majority (Weiß & Furculita, 2020a). The constitutional question of the balance of power between the Commission and Parliament, already raised in face of the Commission's power increase under the post-Lisbon Comitology rules for trade policy (Bourgeois & Chamon, 2021), is now exacerbated due to the much more politicised context of trade.…”

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The EU's strategic autonomy in times of politicisation of international trade: The future of commission accountability

Weiß

2023

Global Policy

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Trade relations face unprecedented challenges, which has led to an increased politicisation and contestation of trade rules. In response, the EU has changed its trade policy under the motto ‘Open Strategic Autonomy’ towards a more assertive policy. The EU seeks to significantly expand its room of manoeuvre and to gain more autonomy by strengthening the enforcement of its trade rights and by ensuring more effectively, including unilaterally, a level playing field. This reorientation engenders several new or amended trade policy instruments, but meets with reservations as the renewed politicisation of EU trade policy will have internal consequences and raise demands for more democratic accountability of the European Commission. The new policy instruments will enlarge its leeway in trade policy. The future of the EU's multilateral, rule‐ instead of power‐oriented political stance becomes unclear, which might undermine its negotiation position in WTO reform and collide with the EU's respect for international law. The tensions of the EU's new hybrid approach with its international commitments even more fuel demands for increased accountability of the Commission as a safeguard against employing the new powers for protectionism and disrespect to international law. The contribution analyses the need for increased Commission accountability in the redirected trade policy.

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The EU's strategic autonomy in times of politicisation of international trade: The future of commission accountability

Weiß

2023

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Principle of Most Favoured Nation: Description, Modern Evolution, and Analysis of the Exceptionality of the Principle in A Contemporary World

Lavdari

2021

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The "most favoured nation" principle is the cornerstone of the modern international trading system. Each state is obliged to reflect the benefits it offers a nation over other WTO adherents as well. This system, however, although it proved effective until the last century for the creation of an international free trade system, today has lost its capabilities, mainly degraded by “private” international agreements between nations, such as RTA, FTA, PTA and REIO, who have torn apart the principle and created groups of nations, each with their own personal advantages which are bestowed only on the nations adhering to the agreement. The following sections aim to give a description of this phenomenon and its evolutions up to modern times, through an analysis of the various exceptionality of the "most favored nation" principle, of the situation of modern free trade agreements, and of the effects both for national legislations and markets, in order to be able to understand what are the conditions facing the global market today and, above all, if the principle of "non-discrimination" is still a cornerstone in the trade relations in the MFN.

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Introduction: EU Trade Policy Facing Unprecedented Challenges

Cited by 2 publications

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The EU's strategic autonomy in times of politicisation of international trade: The future of commission accountability

The EU's strategic autonomy in times of politicisation of international trade: The future of commission accountability

Principle of Most Favoured Nation: Description, Modern Evolution, and Analysis of the Exceptionality of the Principle in A Contemporary World

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