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Die Europäische Union und ihre Handelspartner
Im Laufe der Jahre ist die Union von der Herstellung arbeitsintensiver Erzeugnisse mit geringem Wert abgerückt, um sich auf hochwertigere Markenwaren zu spezialisieren. Angesichts ihrer offenen Wirtschaft ist der Handel für die Union von wesentlicher Bedeutung. Um Handelshemmnisse zu überwinden und gleiche Wettbewerbsbedingungen für ihre Unternehmen zu schaffen, führt die Union Verhandlungen über mehrere Freihandelsabkommen (FHA). Die Union gehört auch zu den Gründern und wichtigsten Akteuren der ...
Die Europäische Union und die Welthandelsorganisation
Die Welthandelsorganisation (World Trade Organisation, WTO) setzt sich für ein regelgestütztes internationales Handelssystem ein. Trotz des Stillstands bei den Handelsverhandlungen werden Möglichkeiten geprüft, die Bestimmungen der WTO zu modernisieren und neuen globalen Herausforderungen zu begegnen. Gemäß dem Vertrag von Lissabon erlässt das Europäische Parlament gemeinsam mit dem Rat Rechtsvorschriften, muss Änderungen an WTO-Übereinkommen oder neue Übereinkommen billigen und spielt eine wichtige ...
Handelsregelungen für Entwicklungsländer
Im Rahmen der Entwicklungspolitik der EU wird die Bedeutung des Handels herausgestellt und der Schwerpunkt auf die bedürftigsten Länder gelegt. Über das Allgemeine Präferenzsystem wird für einige Waren aus Entwicklungsländern ein bevorzugter Zugang zum EU-Markt gewährt. Mit Wirtschaftspartnerschaftsabkommen werden afrikanischen, karibischen und pazifischen Staaten Handelsvergünstigungen eingeräumt, während für die am wenigsten entwickelten Länder (LDC) die Regelung „Alles außer Waffen“ gilt. Diese ...
EU-Ukraine trade and investment relations and the impact of Russia’s war
The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is the main tool for bringing Ukraine and the EU closer together: it promotes deeper political ties, stronger economic links and the respect for common values. The Agreement was negotiated between 2007 and 2011, signed in 2014, and entered into force on 1 September 2017 after unanimous ratification by EU Member States. The Association Agreement includes a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) between the EU and Ukraine that has been provisionally applied ...
EU in the world / Migration Citizens’ recommendations and the EU context: Panel 4 of the Conference on the Future of Europe
As part of the Conference on the Future of Europe, 800 citizens debated their ideas for the European Union in four thematic panels. The citizens involved in Panel 4 considered the possibilities for two related themes: the EU in the world and migration. This publication presents their recommendations, as well as a selection of related European Parliament resolutions and EU legislation, funding programmes and other activities. These background elements are not exhaustive, but have been selected to ...
Commitments made at the hearing of Valdis Dombrovskis Commissioner for Trade
The Commission Executive Vice-President/Commissioner-designate, Valdis Dombrovskis, appeared before the European Parliament on 02 October 2020 to answer questions put by MEPs from the Committee on International Trade, in association with the Committees on Foreign Affairs, on Economic and Monetary Affairs, on Development and on Budgets. During the hearing, he made a number of commitments which are highlighted in this document. These commitments refer to his portfolio as Trade Commissioner, as described ...
Commitments made at the hearing of Phil HOGAN, Commissioner-designate - Trade
The Commissioner-designate, Phil Hogan, appeared before the European Parliament on 30 September 2019 to answer questions from MEPs in the Committee on International Trade (INTA). During the hearing, he made a number of commitments which are highlighted in this document. These commitments refer to his portfolio, as described in the mission letter sent to him by Ursula von der Leyen, President-elect of the European Commission, including: - A level playing field for all; - Strengthening Europe’s ...
Free trade or geo-economics? Trends in world trade
The European Union (EU) is the biggest integrated economic zone and a guarantor of an open and predictable regulatory system able to determine its own economic destiny. But the behaviour of other global powers is increasingly calling this ability into question. China and the United States, especially, do not separate economic interests from geopolitical interests in the same way the EU does and are increasingly trying to gain geopolitical advantage using their economic might. The EU is known as ...