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With expanding clean technologies, the boom of data centers, and increased security needs, comes a growth in demand for critical resources. Known as critical and strategic raw materials (CRMs and SRMs) in the European Union (EU), and critical minerals (CM) in the United States (US), these resources are invaluable to both European and American industries. Abundant within the Earth's crust, but controlled by only a handful of countries, high-risk, low-diversity supply chains have raised the alarm globally ...

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the European Union’s latest generation of so-called mini trade deals (MTDs), an informal but analytically useful label applied to agreements that sit outside the standard free trade agreement (FTA) framework. The paper focuses on three current categories: clean trade and investment partnerships (CTIPs), sustainable investment facilitation agreements (SIFAs), and memoranda of understanding (MoUs) related to critical raw materials (CRMs). Drawing on existing ...

The current proposal would extend the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) to aluminium and steel downstream products, consider measures to prevent circumvention and modify the methodology for calculating embedded emissions of electricity.

The agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) in respect of Gibraltar would complete the legal framework of the relations between the EU and the UK established by the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA). The status of Gibraltar, not covered by the TCA, has been negotiated between the EU, Spain, the UK and Gibraltar since October 2021. The negotiations concluded in June 2025 with a broad agreement that introduces a hybrid governance model with roles for all four parties ...

V tem poglavju kratkega vodnika je pojasnjeno, kako razvojna politika EU poudarja pomen trgovine in se osredotoča na države, ki najbolj potrebujejo pomoč, prek shem, ki so skladne s pravili Svetovne trgovinske organizacije. Predstavljena je tudi splošna shema preferencialov, trgovinski dogovor, ki državam v razvoju zagotavlja prednostni dostop do trga EU prek znižanih carinskih stopenj. V njem je opisano še, kako sporazumi o gospodarskem partnerstvu zagotavljajo preferencialno trgovinsko obravnavo ...

V tem poglavju kratkega vodnika so pojasnjeni vloga Svetovne trgovinske organizacije (STO), njene glavne naloge in tekoča prizadevanja za reforme, pa tudi sodelovanje z Evropsko unijo. Opisani so tudi vloga STO pri trgovinskih pogajanjih in reševanju sporov, nedavni razvoj večstranskih in mnogostranskih pogajanj, tudi na nedavnih ministrskih konferencah STO, ter stališče EU o reformi STO. V poglavju je opisana tudi vloga Evropskega parlamenta pri oblikovanju in nadzoru trgovinske politike EU in zadev ...

V tem poglavju kratkega vodnika je pojasnjeno, kako EU spodbuja odprto gospodarstvo in podpira večstranski red, ki temelji na pravilih, saj je trgovina bistvena za blaginjo EU. EU je ena od ustanoviteljic in ključnih akterk Svetovne trgovinske organizacije (STO). Poleg tega je EU, da bi odpravila trgovinske ovire, omogočila enake konkurenčne pogoje za svoja podjetja in spodbujala mednarodne zaveze na področju trgovine in trajnostnega razvoja, že sklenila več kot 40 sporazumov o prosti trgovini, medtem ...