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Green Geopolitics Is Turning Red at the WTO
Accusing the EU of being deaf to their grievances, several emerging countries have decided to escalate their fight against the EU’s new Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products.
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Reports of the death of the WTO are premature—or are they?
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#146 THE G|O BRIEFING, JULY 13, 2023
No way out of the crisis yet at the WTO |International Geneva: “Relevant, unrecognized, at times opaque.”
The war in Ukraine contaminates the work at the WTO
The war in Ukraine continues to disrupt the work of an already deadlocked World Trade Organisation (WTO). Across different committees, negotiations, and working groups, the mutual accusations between Kiev and Moscow are overshadowing all other issues.
A case in point was the March 24–25 meeting of the Committee on
#94 The G|O Briefing, April 21, 2022
China ratifies conventions against forced labor – The war continues to disrupt the WTO’s deliberations
#76 The G|O Briefing, November 4, 2021
How do you like it? A new UN building in Geneva + G|O's Jamil Chade assaulted by Bolsonaro's goon + New support for The Geneva Observer
Washington and Brussels to put on hold their commercial disagreement on steel and aluminum
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All roads lead to Rome—and often too, to Geneva.
The coordinated and sustained effort by the US, the EU, Japan and a few “like-minded countries” to find a common answer to China (which we reported on in
Digital Colonialism
The global battle for control of the digital economy is typically portrayed as one fought by only two titans: US and China, but that does not mean that the EU has been standing still.
Biden is back, America isn't
Carl Bildt | "The US president perpetuates a misguided trade policy towards China that leaves both the Americans and the Europeans out in the cold."