Trade & Investments

The subtext of France and Australia’s submarine deal

It was supposed to be an announcement of a pact, not the start of a foreign relations crisis between allies. But as Australia announced a new security partnership with the UK and the US, dubbed…

GDPR’s one-stop-shop principle is put to the test; and the EU-UK clash over trade settings

A central part of the EU’s ambitious privacy legislation, the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, was put to the test recently, with a European court asked to rule on whether Belgium’s data-privacy regulator had…

Avoiding a requiem for the WTO

"The WTO has been 'missing in action': how can we restore the organisation's role as a global forum for cooperation on trade? As the only global international organisation dealing with the rules of trade between…