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EU-Swiss institutional framework progress will be slow

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EU/SWITZERLAND

Without a dispute settlement mechanism in Swiss-EU relations, Switzerland has no legal leverage to defend its rights. Ironically, such a mechanism is the most controversial…

Leaner EU regulation would delight business

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EU

The European Commission's plan to lessen the burden of regulation.

The EU’s international trade priorities are shifting

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EU

From the strategy, it appears the EU no longer sees free trade deals as an end in themselves but as another instrument -- alongside tools such as Carbon Border Adjustment Measures…

Battery production to influence politics in eastern EU

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EASTERN EUROPE

The global shift to a green economy coupled with the EU’s decarbonisation policy is creating new opportunities for business in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Low labour costs…

EU farmer unrest looks set to persist

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FRANCE

The government made significant concessions to smallholding farmers on January 26, but representatives of large arable farmers are not satisfied. President Emmanuel Macron is…

Brexit will give the UK economy new opportunities

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UNITED KINGDOM

The main impacts of Brexit will be new tariff and non-tariff barriers, a new immigration regime that will favour medium- and high-skilled people from outside the EU, the ability…

New UK immigration plans will favour non-EU migrants

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UNITED KINGDOM

UK immigration plans.

EU-UK deal allows Cameron to campaign against Brexit

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EU/UK

The package of reforms on a new EU-UK relationship.

COVID-19 will result in limited EU health integration

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EU

COVID-19 is by far the EU's worst health crisis and it has spurred fresh proposals for integration. The European Commission has announced plans to strengthen the management of…

Brexit will be damaging for UK-EU services trade

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UK/EU

Even if it succeeds, this will have a greater disruptive impact on the trade in services than goods, because the EU’s single market enables greater cross-border services trade…