It is a sign of times that many government officials today spend considerable time thinking about what products that should not be embraced by efforts to liberalise trade and subject to trade...

The following article was also published as an op-ed in the December 6th issue of the European Voice under the title ’Open trade is a two-way street’ The decision by the EU trade ministers to...

There are some interesting ideas and proposals in the European Commission’s new Communication on trade and development. After a decade as leader of aid for trade, the EU now wants to reform its...

Did you think that the Doha Round had died and was gone for good?  Not so: the Trade Ministers in December “deeply regretted that … negotiations are at an impasse”;  but they “remain...

While Europe’s attention is focused on EU leaders fighting the Eurozone crisis and intriguing future Russia World Trade Organization accession, not many have noticed that two low-income countries...

Imagine that a troika of enlightened creatures from Mars, Venus and Pluto would set their feet in Europe to pass a judgment on the eurozone crisis. What would they say? Free from future ambition,...