When the Green Deal causes confusion in EU trade policy

The Green Deal is no longer content to occupy centre stage in European politics. The EU is increasingly seeking to impose its green standards on imports, and therefore indirectly on its trading partners. It’s a trend that not only irritates its trading partners, but also divides it internally, to the point of destabilising the Commission’s powerful Directorate-General for Trade.
28 May 2024 à 7h00
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Jérémie Luciani pour Contexte

This is the story of a collateral effect that was once neglected, but is now taking centre stage in discussions on the future of the Green Deal. With a hundred or so texts presented in less than five years, this green package has ended up shaking up the old pillar of European integration that is trade policy. This is a competence that has been entirely managed by the Commission since the 1960s, under the scrupulous supervision of the Member States.…

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